Cooker Gallery

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers 1938

Providing ample accommodation for all the food and untensils required in cooking for a family of 6 to 8. This is one of the popular Main gas cookers obtainable in all-enamel and chromium finish - with patant removable oven shelf supports and reversible grid shelves, and fitted with Mainstat oven heat control. Date: 1938

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

The Song the Kettle is Singing

The Song the Kettle is Singing (in a dear little place called home) - written and composed by Worton David and Lawrence Wright - sung with enormous success by Miss Florrie Forde and Miss Dora Lyric. A housewife wistfully hears the songs of the soldiers (including her own man at the front) in the whistle of the steaming kettle on the range.
circa 1916

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Gary Tann Collection

Antoinette Powell-Cotton (1913-1997) with Nanny, Mrs Cook

Antoinette Powell-Cotton (1913-1997) with her Nanny, Mrs Cook, in the garden of Quex Park in August 1916. Antoinette was the third child of Major and Mrs Powell-Cotton of Quex Park. The children remained at Quex Park throughout most of the war period, living in one of the Estate houses with their Nanny, Mrs Cook, known as Cooker'. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment. The Commandant was Hannah Powell-Cotton (1881-1964), wife of Major Percy HG Powell-Cotton (1866-1940) of of Quex Park, founder of the Powell-Cotton Museum. Date: 1916

© The Powell-Cotton Museum Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library