Dining Collection (#27)

The Humorist Summer Number 1939
Bright and jolly front cover design for The Humorist magazine Summer Number by William Heath Robinson featuring a number of bathers paddling and playing about in the sea

Banquet in the Imperial Pavilion
The banquet hosted by the Duke of Devonshire as part of his fete celebrations at Chiswick House

Christmas decorations / Ally Sloper
Whilst decorating his dining room with holly, Ally Sloper slips and falls through the chair he has been standing on - a painful experience

Christmas at Caistor Union Workhouse, Lincolnshire
Christmas decorations in the dining hall of the Union workhouse at Caistor, Lincolnshire. A banner on the wall reads Peace On Earth Good Will To Men

Menu from Halifax Union Board of Guardians dinner
The cover of the commemorative menu at the Halifax Union Board of Guardians final dinner. The abolition of all the countrys Boards of Guardians after April 1930 marked the end of the workhouse system

Union Workhouse, Limerick, Ireland, perspective view
The Union workhouse at Limerick, Ireland, was designed by George Wilkinson and opened in 1841. This 1847 view shows the workhouse after proposed enlargements

Irish 800-pauper workhouse, ground plan
Ground plan of the model plan for Irish union workhouses housing up to 800 inmates. The plan was devised by George Wilkinson, the Poor Law Commissioners architect in Ireland

Irish 800-pauper workhouse, perspective view
Perspective view of the model plan for Irish union workhouses housing up to 800 inmates. The plan was devised by George Wilkinson, the Poor Law Commissioners architect in Ireland

White Star Line cup and plate
A cup and a plate bearing the White Star Line name and flag. Date: early 20th century

Caravan interior / W H Robinson
Interior of the family caravan, including a library, a dining room and day nursery. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

At the Sporting Club, Monte Carlo
A gala at the sporting club at Monte Carlo during the Christmas season

Dining room on refugee ship WWII
The dining room of the refugee ship the SS Sinaia

Industrial Exhibition - Stockholm, Sweden 1909
The Restaurant Bispen at the Konstindustriutstallningen Exhibition at Stockholm, Sweden. A precursor of Swedish Moden Design

Dining car on the Great Northern Railway

Porch entrance to Borley Rectory
Undated photograph of front and porch entrance to Borley Rectory from the drive. The bricked up window of the dining room can be seen on left

Titanic blueprint (part)
Part of the blueprint of the SS Titanic, showing first, second and third class passenger areas, crew rooms and boiler rooms

Table napkins
Six ways to fold napkins. Top left, Victorian fan; right, Cornet; centre left, Water Lily; right, Swan; bottom left, Mitre; right, Pocket fold

Menu from the Savoy salle manger
Besides the famous restaurant at the Savoy in London, there is also a salle manger on the same level in which dinner is served in time for the theatres. This is the menu in late June 1901

White Star Line cup, saucer and plate
A china cup, saucer and plate bearing the White Star Line name and flag

Zoroastrian Boarding School - Devlali, India - The Dining Room at Tea time

The Humorist Christmas Number
Two diners pull a wishbone rather too energetically much to the amazement (or annoyance) of their waitress. Chicken, plates

Viceroys House, New Delhi: the State Dining Room
The State dining-room of the Viceroy of Indias residence in New Delhi; a design in a Classical style; the walls panelled in teak with life-sized portraits between the pilasters

Success: Or the Ever Diminishing Dancefloor by Leslie Butler
Humorous illustration by Leslie Butler showing an unfeasibly crowded, popular restaurant, with tables crowded together and waiters struggling to reach customers between the very few gaps

Railway Dining Car with waiters

Queen Victoria photographed with the Battenbergs at Windsor
Mealtime at Windsor in 1895: Queen Victoria sits at the dining table with Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg and three of their four children - Leopold (left, on the booster cushion)

The Metamorphosis of the Herring by A. K. Macdonald
Two contrasting illustrations. The first shows workers at a quayside or harbour - perhaps Grimsby, sorting a catch of herrings just brought in by a fishing trawler

State Dining Room, Buckingham Palace, 1887
Engraving showing the State Dining Room at Buckingham Palace, London, 1887

Dining Room of Apsley House, London, 19th century
Photograph showing the dining room of Apsley House in London, sometime during the 19th century. Apsley House was the home of the Duke of Wellington following his famous victories in the Napoleonic

The Duke of Edinburgh opening the Seamens Orphanage in Live
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, opening the Seamens Orphanage, Liverpool in 1870. The Liverpool Seamens Orphan Institution was established in order to provide care

Bird Singing Match in an East End Pub, 1903
Illustration showing a bird singing match, in progress in a public house, in the East End of London, 1903. The birds, in little cages on the back wall

Christmas Dinner in a Canadian Log Cabin, c. 1906
Illustration showing Chinese waiters bringing the Christmas dinner, suckling-pig, into a dining room full of Canadian frontiersmen, c.1906

Dining Room on board an Emigrant Ship, 1852
Engraving purportedly showing the dining saloon of a British Government emigrant ship, 1852. It was reported that this room comfortably accomodates six hundred people

The Pre-Catelan Club, Paris, 1924
Illustration showing the interior of the chic Parisian night-club, the Pre-Catelan, 1924. Ladies and gentlemen, in formal evening attire, are shown dining and dancing against a backdrop of trees

Dinning Room
The dining room: furniture in coromandel and walnut, giving a keynote of black and yellow. A black marble mantlepiece and lighting urns on pedestals

Dr Syntax / Counterpart / 2T
Dr Syntax and his counterpart

Cat on Dining Table
A small child is alarmed when Puss jumps onto the table to share its supper - but maman and elder sister don t seem to mind

Crocuses growing in PRS Discoverys wardroom, 1902
Illustration showing the wardroom of the Polar Research Ship Discovery, Easter Sunday, 1902. Several of the ships officers can be seen climbing onto the dining table to look at their pots of crocuses

The Interior of the Amundsen Antarctic Expeditions Winter Q
Photograph showing the living quarters of the hut used by Roald Amundsens Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12. Sleeping bunks, with curtains, line the edges of the hut, with the dining table in the centre

Traditional Dining Room
A dining room in the traditional style, complete with fire place and sideboard

Art Noveau Dining Room
The corner of a dining room decorated in the Art Noveau style

Period Dining Room
A period style dining room with a polished wood dining table

Art Noveau Dining
An Art Noveau style dining room with fire place and sideboard

17th Century Dining Room
A dining room in a grand and ostentatious home in the later 17th century

Parisians at Sceaux: Dining in a Tree, 1872
Engraving showing wealthy Parisians enjoying dinner at Sceaux, with some dining in tree-houses; their food arriving in baskets hoisted up to them

Dining Saloon on the Royal Yacht Hohenzollern, 1879
Engraving showing the dining saloon of the Royal Yacht Hohenzollern, owned by the Emperor of Germany, 1879. Date: 1879

The First-Class Dining Saloon on R. M. S. P. Almanzora, 1920
Photograph of a corner of the first-class dining saloon on board R.M.S.P. Almanzora, 1920. Launched in 1914, she served as an Armed Cruiser in World War I, then was reconverted into a liner

City of London Dining
A busy scene in a City of London dining room

Social / Midnight Follies
Elegant people dining at the Midnight Follies, Mayfair, London

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