Chefs Collection

Simpsons Strand Chefs
The veteran carvers and superintendents at Simpsons on the Strand, the famous London restaurant

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Group photo, Claridges Hotel kitchen staff, Mayfair, London W1. Date: 1908

Too Many Cooks -- photograph of four chefs (possibly French). circa late 19th century

Chef Strirring It
A chef stirring a large bowl with a huge spatula. Date: early 1930s

Black Waiter with Thanksgiving Turkey
A jovial black waiter in America raises aloft the Thanksgiving Turkey on this Greetings card

Restaurant Chef / Marchett
Restaurant chefs at work

18th C French Kitchen
Several cooks work in a French kitchen to prepare and bake pies and pastry, a hare and a bird pie of some kind, perhaps pigeon

Regent Palace Hotel Kitchens, London
Regent Palace Hotel Kitchens, Piccadilly, London - The Brigade in action. The Hotel opened in 1915 and closed in 2006. Over 50 people can be seen working in the kitchen in this shot

Hotel chefs relaxing, Central London
Chefs outside a Central London hotel take a break from their labours, in the fresh air. Date: circa 1950s

Bayeux, Normandy, France - 14th century wooden house (Maison de Bois) on La Rue des Cuisiniers. Date: circa 1910s

The Famous Dolma Maker, Constantinople
A Famous Dolma maker. Dolma is a family of stuffed vegetable dishes in the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions. The stuffing may or may not include meat

Group photo, Carlton Hotel kitchen staff, London, posing on the hotel roof in November 1908. Date: 1908

Trainee Chefs 1930S
Two student chefs at the Gordon Fellowes School of Domestic Service. Date: early 1930s

Dogs as Chefs
Three doggy chefs in their hats. Date: early 1930s

Poster advertising National Savings (the best British recipe for prosperity), with six recipes from one of the first television chefs, Philip Harben (1906-1970). circa 1940s

Kitchen staff, Piccadilly Hotel, London W1
Group photo of kitchen staff and others, possibly with the manager at the centre of the front row, Piccadilly Hotel, London W1. Date: 1908

TV Celebrity Chefs
Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Antony Worrall Thompson, Gary Rhodes, Fanny Craddock, Delia Smith, Ainsley Harriott, Gordon Ramsey, Keith Floyd, Rick Stein - TV Celebrity Chefs

Cute Puppies: Three Chefs

WW2 - The Stuff To Give Em
A portrait photograph which shows three smiling wartime chefs, bringing food for the Royal Air Force. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Making a Stir
The war is just over and on the back of the card Mr Churchill says Advance Britannia! Long live the cause of Freedom! God save the King

Menu card, Princes Restaurant, Singapore
Front cover, menu card, Princes Restaurant, Singapore, showing a chef and his young assistant in a ramshackle and untidy kitchen. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1930s

Lascars on British Ships: The Question of their Retention. " Human Salamanders" :The Lascar at Work and Play. Employed on board P&O Australian Line liners - working as Coal Stokers

Boy with an empty dish on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Boy serving a fruit pie on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Boy serving a roast turkey on a Thanksgiving postcard. Date: 1909

Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle 1887
Roasting the baron of beef, Windsor Castle. The baron of beef was an annual institution at Windsor and was cut from the first prize fat bullock at the Shaw Farm Sale

Barbecuing on a Spit Date: 1954

Paris - The Kitchens of the Lycee Montaigne, a famous French public secondary school. It is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg, and was founded in the 1880s

Cooking the Chefs Goose - A Christmas Fantasy, Leon Heron
A rather bizarre illustration showing two huge geese flying away from a chef ridden by Father Christmas, a policeman and a flapper girl! Date: 1929

Victorian 1890s Card Greetings White Ornate Lace
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Chefs and buffet at Island Hotel, Tresco, Isles of Scilly
Three chefs standing behind a lavish buffet table at the Island Hotel, Tresco, Isles of Scilly. Date: circa 1980s

Cadburys Happy Families - Master Flavour
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Master Flavour the Chefs Son. circa 1950

Cartoon, Richard d Oyly Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan
Cartoon, Richard d Oyly Carte as maitre d, with Ws Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as chefs, at the Savoy Dining Room. Opening the new shop -- it is wonderful what may be done by enterprise and Patience

Cordon Bleu with its founder, Rosemary Hume
The Cordon Bleu School at a trade fair with its founder, Rosemary Hume Date: 1970

Four cooks inside their work premises, USA
Four cooks inside their work premises, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Cadburys Happy Families - Mrs Flavour
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Mrs Flavour the Chefs Wife. circa 1950

Cadburys Happy Families - Mr Flavour
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Mr Flavour the Chef. circa 1950

Cadburys Happy Families - Miss Flavour
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Miss Flavour the Chefs Daughter. circa 1950

Bilbao, Spain - Giant Figures - Festival
Semana Grande Festival, the gigante of modern fiestas of Bilbao, Spain - Many Latin festivals include costumed figures known as gigantes y cabezudos, roughly, Giants and Big-Heads. Date: circa 1905

Christmas card in the shape of a chef holding a pudding on a plate. Date: circa 1890s

WW2 poster, British Rail catering information, with a cartoon by Fougasse. Food was rationed for British Rail, as for everyone else, and Refreshment Baskets were discontinued. circa 1940s

Chefs cooking in the Kitchen on a deluxe overland limited train in America Date: circa 1910

Als Sandwich Shop, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Als Sandwich Shop, 23rd Street, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, specialising in sandwiches, breakfasts and delicatessen. " That popular sandwich shop known from coast to coast"

Cartoon, A dry telegram, WW1
Cartoon, A dry telegram, showing a chef (a spy) writing to his boss, that after eight days the boxes of rubbish have contained nothing of diplomatic interest. Date: 1915

Royal Albert Orphanage, Bagshot, Surrey - cooking in kitchen
Boys at the Royal Albert Orphanage, some in chefs whites, stir a large mixture. Date: Date unknown

Russian Communal Kitchen
Seven women busying themselves around a stone work top adorned with an array of large tins and pots in a 1920s Russian communal kitchen. Date: 1920 s

A food hygiene course
Two chefs prepare food infront of a predominantly female audience who take notes and listen keenly to the two experts. The blackboard behind the cooks has details of todays dishes which include beef

LCC-LFB firewomen with mobile kitchen, WW2
The crew of a mobile kitchen (three cooks and a driver) who kept the regular and auxiliary firefighters fed during the Second World War

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