Serves Collection

Playing Table Tennis - Edwardian - Etiquette
I am not sure whether it is my turn. (to write the postcard or to serve!!) A smart Gentleman makes a courteous enquiry to his glamorous young female table tennis companion. Date: circa 1904

Central Computer / Harwell
The Central Computer at Harwell serves over 600 users and has 200 typewriter terminals distributed around the site. This view shows the IBM 360/75

Barmaid in Smoky Pub
A barmaid serves a customer in a smokey London pub. On the back wall is a fine selection of spirits while in the foreground, punters chat among themselves

Bailiff and Writ
TAPPING - a bailiff corners a young man in the street and serves a writ on him, perhaps a tailors bill he has forgotten to pay, perhaps something more serious

WW2 - Home Guard Goings On
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's story book, Home Guard Goings On, written by Basil Boothroyd. The image portrays an older gentleman wielding a gun

WW2, Jackie Serving Tea
This illustration shows Jackie, a fictional character from a WW2 story book, she serves for the Emergency Mobile Canteen Corps, offering tea to some servicemen

The State funeral of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's coffin on the burial in St Paul's Cathedral, London. Date: 18th November 1852

The Frauenkirche church in Munich, Bavaria, Germany
19th century vintage photograph: The Frauenkirche is a church in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, that serves as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and seat of its Archbishop

Couple Served by Waiter Date: 1948

WAITRESS & JAPANESE MEN WAITRESS & JAPANESE MEN
A waitress serves tea to a group of Japanese men Date: 1854

UNCLE SAM & ROOSEVELT UNCLE SAM & ROOSEVELT
Uncle Sam serves up the promise of another four years of office to Theodore Roosevelt Date: 1906

Salvation Army officers serve Covent Garden Market workers
United Kingdon General Strike, 1926 - Salvation Army officers serve Covent Garden Market workers with tea and biscuits, free of charge

Sporty French Tennis Girl prepares to serve. One hopes that her choice of woollen top, tie and thick bonnet does not cause her to overheat by the second set...! Date: 1920

Greek art. Classical period. Grave stele. Relief. Funerary banquet scene. The man lying holding in his hand a Philae and a boy came from a crater serves

Diogenes with Lantern
The Greek philosopher Diogenes, crouching beside the barrel which serves him as home, holds a lantern with which he searches Athens for an honest man... Date: 412-323 BC

Will and Betty Rogers - outdoor cookery
Will Rogers (1879-1935) - a Cherokee cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator and stage and motion picture actor

Air Stewardess 1960
An Air Stewardess serves a meal aboard a BEA flight from London to Gibraltar. Date: 1960

Procne and Philomela
Tereus, king of Thrace, wed to Procne, rapes her sister Philomela : Procne serves their son to him for supper, becomes a swallow, Philomela a nightingale, Tereus a hawk

Serving Coffee
The maidservant serves coffee for her master as he sits reading Le petit Journal in the garden Date: 1885

The Ship Inn, Wincle, Cheshire, in April 1908 - a scene virtually unchanged to this day as the Ship still serves refreshment to travellers over a hundred years on. Date: 1908

Dangers of using a German razor
Ugh ! Nasty cut ! Serves me right for using a beastly German-made razor. Its a wonder it hasn t slipped and cut my throat before now !

Man harvesting in a field, He Also Serves, WW1
He Also Serves. A man harvesting in a field at the start of the First World War. The verse below says: He serves no less who toils to save / The harvest for his native land. Date: August 1914

Red Indian Hair Care
The dressing table of a Seminola Indian from the Everglades, Florida, U.S.A. The sausage-roll shaped rat serves as a support for the coiffure built upon it. Date: 1930s

Family seated at the dinner table 1960s
Mum serves up dinner to the rest of the family. Date: late 1960s

Advertisement for Ross Foods -- family of three at the table (modelled by D Groves, Andrew Downie and M Baldock). 1959

USA Tea Car providing refreshment for bombed-out famillies
WW2 - The morning after - no homes, no gas, or water - but a USA Tea Car is there with hot tea and refreshment to care the children and families affected following the devastating raid

Magistrate at Bow Street Magistrates Court, London. Date: 1892

Russian Restaurant scene - Waiter delivering the aperitifs Date: 1902

A stewardess serves drinks in a mock-up of aft passenger cabin of a Lockheed Super Constellation

A stewardess serves tea in a mock-up of the eight-seat lounge of a Lockheed Super Constellation

Nurses Serving Food
A nurse serves food in a hospital ward - it seems to be a plate of various mashed food. Date: 1950s

The girl on the land serves the nations need Apply YWCA Land Service Committee. Poster showing four young women carrying tools and a basket of produce, and leading a team of horses. Date 1918

Paris Arc Du Carrousel
This arch stands between the Louvre, which you can see beyond it, and les jardins des Tuileries, which lie behind us. It serves no useful purpose but looks impressive. Date: circa 1904

Fourpaws Cafe
A dog waiter serves a cup of tea to a female cat customer at the Fourpaws Cafe. Date: early 1930s

Barmaid Grins & Bears It
An insincere barmaid laughs at a customers bad joke as she serves him a frothy tankard of ale! Date: 1967

Drinks on the Terrace
A waiter serves drinks to people sitting on the shady terrace of the Fort Burt Hotel, Road Town, Tortola, Virgin Islands, West Indies. Date: late 1960s

A Street vendor of rice wine - Japan
A street vendor serves a female client with rice wine in Kobe, Japan. The man carries the two boxes by means of a pole on his shoulders and cries " Amesake!"

Serving Soup - Charity

The Restaurant
A young boy in a sailor suit, treats his girl to a meal in a fancy restaurant. In the background a suave waiter serves a lidded plate of food to another diner

Boulton Paul Overstrand
Though it serves with the RAF from 1933 to 1937, this plane is already old-fashioned with its biplane format and fabric covered wings and fuselage, and is withdrawn

Africa / Waiter / Pool
An African waiter serves two Western women relaxing in a pool shaded by palm trees

Old Gipsy Woman
An old gipsy woman grins as she serves up potatoes and cabbage (?) from a boiling cauldron

Gnome Serves Birds
Birds in an outdoor cafe are served by a gnome

Slum Cricket
A group of boys play a game of cricket on waste ground. A piece of wood propped up with coats serves as a makeshift wicket, while the ball is composed of who knows what?

Butcher Serves Customer
A woman customer, holding a lorgnette up to her face, points to a plucked chicken that the butcher has picked up

Butcher & Customers
A moustachioed butcher in a red striped shirt serves three rather unattractive ladies who crowd around the cuts of meat

Giving Wine to Groom
A female attendant serves wine to a groom

Advert / Van Nelle Tea
A lady serves Van Nelles Gebroken Thee because broken tea has a finer taste than coarse tea, also its more fragrant Date: early 20th century

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