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Butchers Collection

Background imageButchers Collection: Fat Geese! by Lawson Wood

Fat Geese! by Lawson Wood
A cheeky young lad chuckles to himself after placing a sign for fattened geese on the posterior of a rather plump lady who is herself choosing which goose to buy for her Christmas dinner. Date: 1909

Background imageButchers Collection: Butchers Shop, High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex

Butchers Shop, High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex
W Snelling Butchers Shop, 11 High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. circa 1900

Background imageButchers Collection: View of Upper Baker Street, Marylebone, London

View of Upper Baker Street, Marylebone, London, with F H Cooper postcard publisher and Vandersluis butchers. Date: circa 1908

Background imageButchers Collection: Notting Hill Gate and Coronet Theatre, West London

Notting Hill Gate and Coronet Theatre, West London
Notting Hill Gate (looking west) and Coronet Theatre, West London. Date: circa 1905

Background imageButchers Collection: Bears hanging in Smithfield market 1906

Bears hanging in Smithfield market 1906
Bruins as food for the city luncher : Bears hanging in Smithfield Market, London, several bears were shipped to England in order that Londoners might have an opportunity of tasting bear-flesh

Background imageButchers Collection: Advertisement for Eastmans butchers

Advertisement for Eastmans butchers -- temptation for a confirmed vegetarian! Date: early 20th century

Background imageButchers Collection: (Goat) Meat Stall - New Market, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal state, India

(Goat) Meat Stall - New Market, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal state, India. The two gentleman on the right are clearly Muslim and therefore practising Halal Butchery. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageButchers Collection: Maidenhead, Berkshire - Nicholsons Walk Shopping Centre

Maidenhead, Berkshire - Nicholsons Walk Shopping Centre
Maidenhead, Berkshire, England - Nicholsons Walk Shopping Centre. Date: 1980s

Background imageButchers Collection: Butchers Boy

Butchers Boy. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageButchers Collection: Coventry Butcher's Row Victorian period

Coventry Butcher's Row Victorian period

Background imageButchers Collection: Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham

Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham - looking west from Monument Road (note Church of the Redeemer - left and Simpson & Sons Butchers - right) Date: 1911

Background imageButchers Collection: Butchers shop

Butchers shop Date: 19th century

Background imageButchers Collection: Victorian Butcher's Shop

Victorian Butcher's Shop Date: 19th century

Background imageButchers Collection: Huddersfield Sheepridge Road early 1900s

Huddersfield Sheepridge Road early 1900s

Background imageButchers Collection: Butchers Row, Coventry, Warwickshire

Butchers Row, Coventry, Warwickshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Background imageButchers Collection: Great-grandmama chooses the Christmas Sirloin,s Spurrier

Great-grandmama chooses the Christmas Sirloin,s Spurrier
Great-grandmama chooses the Christmas Sirloin, illustration by Steven Spurrier, artist (1878-1961). Showing woman and girl ordering at Victorian butcher's counter

Background imageButchers Collection: Mrs Block the Butcher's Wife

Mrs Block the Butcher's Wife

Background imageButchers Collection: Miss Block the Butcher's Daughter

Miss Block the Butcher's Daughter

Background imageButchers Collection: Master Block the Butcher's Son

Master Block the Butcher's Son

Background imageButchers Collection: Colour illustration of golfer in tweeds, in an accident with butcher's boy on bike, P Bodge

Colour illustration of golfer in tweeds, in an accident with butcher's boy on bike, P Bodge, Family Butcher. Outdoor scene in country lane by H H Harris

Background imageButchers Collection: Mabel Poulton in film, The Silent House

Mabel Poulton in film, The Silent House, produced by Archibald Nettlefold, directed by Walter Forde Date: 1929

Background imageButchers Collection: Butcher's Christmas Window display

Butcher's Christmas Window display. Date: 1960

Background imageButchers Collection: Interior of the Smithfield Club's Annual Show at the Agricultural Hall Islington, London

Interior of the Smithfield Club's Annual Show at the Agricultural Hall Islington, London. Photograph showing after the judging was completed and awards won. Date: late 1890s

Background imageButchers Collection: Couple in a butchers buying a goose for their Christmas dinner. Date: 1882

Couple in a butchers buying a goose for their Christmas dinner. Date: 1882

Background imageButchers Collection: Comic postcard, Customer in butchers shop Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Customer in butchers shop Date: early 20th century

Background imageButchers Collection: Abandoned butchers bike in Deptford bomb crater, London

Abandoned butchers bike in Deptford bomb crater, London
An abandoned butchers bike lies in a crater in the road left by a bomb in Deptford, South-East London, WW2. Date: circa 1940s

Background imageButchers Collection: Photograph of Butchers Arms, Ashley, Kent

Photograph of Butchers Arms, Ashley, Kent. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Face on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1950

Background imageButchers Collection: The Funeral, the Charity Children and Highgate Tunnel

The Funeral, the Charity Children and Highgate Tunnel. Two children mourning their mother in a funeral procession 73, parish beadles leading a parade of children from a charity school 74

Background imageButchers Collection: Spineless butchers broom, Ruscus hypoglossum

Spineless butchers broom, Ruscus hypoglossum
Spineless butchers broom or horse tongue lily, Ruscus hypoglossum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi

Background imageButchers Collection: Prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana, and butcher s

Prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana, and butcher s
Prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana, and butchers broom, Rustus aculeata. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Background imageButchers Collection: Common butchers broom, Ruscus aculeatus

Common butchers broom, Ruscus aculeatus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Background imageButchers Collection: Royal encampment, era of King Henry VIII

Royal encampment, era of King Henry VIII, showing the royal quarters, market-place, huts of shopkeepers, butchers, etc. Copperplate engraving after the Cotton Collection, Augustus II

Background imageButchers Collection: Butchers broom, Ruscus aculeatus

Butchers broom, Ruscus aculeatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London

Background imageButchers Collection: Spineless butchers broom, Ruscus hypophyllum

Spineless butchers broom, Ruscus hypophyllum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell from Samuel Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1819

Background imageButchers Collection: Climbings butchers broom, Semele androgyna

Climbings butchers broom, Semele androgyna (Ruscus androgynus). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtiss Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816

Background imageButchers Collection: Mays family butchers shop, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Mays family butchers shop, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
T & W Mays Tower Meat Stall, family butchers shop, with James Sutherlands flatbed truck and passengers outside, and Youells Ironmongers on the left, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. circa 1910s

Background imageButchers Collection: Butchers over Christmas period 1868

Butchers over Christmas period 1868
Exhibiting hanging beef for the Christmas. 1868

Background imageButchers Collection: Meat porter working at Les Halles, Paris, France

Meat porter working at Les Halles, Paris, France
Meat porter working at the market, Les Halles, Paris, France. Date: 1960s

Background imageButchers Collection: Scene in the meat market at Les Halles, Paris, France

Scene in the meat market at Les Halles, Paris, France. Date: 1960s

Background imageButchers Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 489

Curtis British Entomology Plate 489
Diptera: Opetia lonchopteroides = Opetia nigra (Lonchoptera-like Opetia) [Plant: Ruscus aculeatus (Butcher?s Broom)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageButchers Collection: Postillon Guesthouse and butchers shop - Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Postillon Guesthouse and butchers shop - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a ski town/resort in Bavaria, southern Germany. Date: circa 1930s

Background imageButchers Collection: Small Grocery Store Date: 1948

Small Grocery Store Date: 1948

Background imageButchers Collection: smithfield clubs club christmas cattle cows cow

smithfield clubs club christmas cattle cows cow
Uncarting the cattle at the Baker-Street Bazaar. Date: 1856

Background imageButchers Collection: DEAD CATS IN BUTCHERS

DEAD CATS IN BUTCHERS
A butcher, planning to use cat meat as a cheap alternative, tells a distraught cat owner: No madame, I have no idea where your pet cat can have got to! Date: 1870

Background imageButchers Collection: Butchers Boy

Butchers Boy
A butchers boy making a delivery. Date: circa 1870

Background imageButchers Collection: Errand Boy

Errand Boy
London characters: when you go shopping, you dont have to carry your purchases home, the ERRAND BOY does that, like this butchers boy carrying your uncovered Sunday joint. Date: circa 1870

Background imageButchers Collection: PHOTOGRAPHING POULTERER

PHOTOGRAPHING POULTERER
The Festive Season - A Proud Moment: the shopkeeper of a poulterers/butchers is photographed standing in front of his shop while passers-by look on Date: 1883

Background imageButchers Collection: Newgate during the week of Christmas 1866

Newgate during the week of Christmas 1866
Busy Newgate during the week of Christmas. Date: 1866



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