Biscuits Collection (page 3)

Food preparation in the 17th century
Preparing foodstuffs of every kind - fowls are dressed, cows are milked, grapes are trod, soup is heated, bread and other items are carried by porters, biscuits are tasted Date: 17th century

Advert / Biscuits
Storekeeper holds a tin of Macfarlane Lang and Co biscuits while he is on the phone Date: 1902

Sunshine Bakers exhibit at Loose Wiles Biscuit Co exhibit at the New York Worlds Fair - " the cutest little midgets you ever saw and they put on a grand show" ! Date: 1939

Boulevard Bugeaud, Algiers, Algeria. Date: circa 1910

Two children with tea and biscuits on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

General view, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
General view of Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. circa 1905

Cecil House, Harrow Road, London - Mother and children
A mother and children enjoy tea and biscuits at Cecil House, Harrow Road, London - a public lodging house for women. Date: circa 1932

Small fold-out views of Reading, Berkshire
Reading, Berkshire: (from top) Caversham Bridge, The Huntley & Palmers Biscuit Works, The Ruins of Reading Abbey, The Majestic river cruiser leaving from the jetty at Caverham Bridge

General view of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
General view (from the Hawley building) of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA. Date: 1915

When Women Vote Sitting up Late. Husband sits up till gone midnight, waiting for his wife who has gone out on the town. Captions include Mother dear mother

London Fire Brigade and AFS with canteen van, WW2
London Fire Brigade crew and AFS staff enjoying a cup of tea outside a canteen van during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Tea break, Baden Powell House, London
A tea break at Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Biscuits & Beef, British soldiers rations, WW1
A humorous cartoon by a serving soldier, Sapper E. G. Eschini showing a British soldier gnawing at the tough and unpalatable biscuits and beef, typical rations during the First World War. Date: 1917

Increasing supplies for lifeboats by G. H. Davis
Increasing the water and food supplies for ships lifeboats during the Second World War. New measures for saving the lives of crews of ships sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic. Date: 1941

Dolls, teddy and rabbit enjoying a tea party
Four dolls, a teddy bear with a parasol, and a rabbit, enjoying a tea party. The table is set with miniature cups, saucers, teapot and kettle, a vase of flowers, and some cakes and biscuits

Adver for Huntley and Palmers biscuits
Huntley and Palmers biscuits advertisement with Father Christmas holding a box of Empire Assorted biscuits Date: 1947

John Fielder Mackarness
JOHN FIELDER MACKARNESS Bishop of Oxford : quite what his connection is with Huntley & Palmers biscuits is a mystery... Date: 1820 - 1889

Advertisement for McVitie biscuits -- models posing as mother and two children (Jane Hancock, Merrill Colbrook and John Moulder Brown). 1959

Russian itinerant street vendor of bread / cakes Date: 1902

Russian itinerant street vendor cakes / pastries / biscuits
Russian itinerant street vendor with his tray of covered cakes, pastries and biscuits. Date: 1902

People You See: The Baker

House of biscuits

The Jolly Dogs

LCC-LFB Canteen Van (CaV) at Lambeth HQ
The Brigades canteen van, stationed at Lambeth fire station (D61). The Brigade only had the one CaV which was sent to all major fires or other protracted incidents

British Legion Childrens Christmas Party, Walton, Essex

International Stores, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Interior view of The International Stores at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, showing biscuit containers (Mitre Biscuits) in front of the counter, and stacks of tins and packets on shelves behind. 1963

Electric devices 1913
Modern electrical devices from 1913: A lady fries herself some eggs for her breakfast in an electric frying pan. A nurse heats some water in a hot water cup

Fattening Foods
Five plates of fattening foods, full of calories, including pies, bread and buns, biscuits, doughnuts and eclairs and uncooked sausages. Date: 1970s

Petits Fours
A tempting plate of petits fours cakes. Date: 1980

Examples from the Victoria Biscuit Company, Belgium
Examples from the Victoria Biscuit Company, Brussels, Belgium. Date: circa 1909

Huntley & Palmers Coronation advert, 1953
Advertisement for Huntley and Palmers, biscuit manufacturers in the special Coronation Number of the Illustrated London News

Meredith & Drew Coronation advertisement, 1953
Advert for Meredith & Drew Coronation assortment of biscuits available in a special souvenir box, with a transparent top (so you can see what you re getting!). Date: 1953

Biscuit manufacturing display, Festival of Britain, London
Aerial view of a biscuit manufacturing display, making ice cream wafers, in the Central Hall of the Power and Production Building, Festival of Britain, South Bank, London. Date: May 1951

Huntley & Palmers advertisement, Coronation 1953
Advertisement for Huntley & Palmers biscuits, " The Worlds Finest, " at the time of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Woman and children picnicking
A woman and children picnicking by a tree outside a town. 1923

Various Biscuits
Eight varieties of biscuits. Date: 1914

Women in Biscuit Factory
Women working in a biscuit factory on the outskirts of London. Date: 1971

DERBY POSIES TEASET
A lovely Derby Posies fine bone china tea set, decorated with roses, including matching teapot, teacups, milk jug and sugar bowl. Date: 1930s

Dog Biscuit
Advert for Walker & Harrison dog biscuit. The Best and Cheapest manufacturers of game and poultry foods of the best quality. Houndmeal and pet-dog biscuits 1880s

Shanghai - porters resting by the roadside
Porters with large wooden barrels and baskets attached to their yolks, rest at the side of the road, some taking refreshment. Further down the street is a vendor of cakes or biscuits

Presenting a woman with milk and cakes
An Illustration accompanying an extract from Lily Watsons book A Child of Genius showing Katharine giving Miss Percival, the drawing mistress, cake and milk

Passengers and Dogs
Three sportsmen and their dogs enjoy boxes of biscuits in their railway compartment

Apricot Jam Biscuits
Delicious home-made apricot jam ring biscuits, still warm from the oven and on their baking tray

Express Dairy Shop Front
The shop front of an Express Dairy which has a range of food such as McVities digestive biscuits, processed peas and sliced peaches

ST PAULs INTERIOR 1789
The service of thanksgiving at St Pauls Cathedral for the Kings recovery from a series of alarming fits and madness. His sons chewed biscuits rudely during the service

Huntley Highlands 1890
In the Scottish Highlands on a Huntley & Palmers biscuit card

MCVITIE & PRICEs 1937
McVitie & Prices Christmas Specialties in presentation boxes

Huntley & Palmer 1929
A vibrant floral print, sleeveless dress with matching shoes. The skirt of the dress is covered with a coordinating gold & black shawl. Pearls complete the look

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