Cookers Gallery

The Cookers - near Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, 1918

The Cookers - near Villers-Bretonneux, Somme 1918, by Lieutenant W (Will) H Dyson (1880-1938), Australian Imperial Force. Dyson joined the Army and despite being wounded twice he produced a large number of drawings of Australian soldiers in battle. In 1915, he became an Australian official war artist at the front. Exhibitions of his war cartoons were held in London, and in November 1918 he published Australia at War, which contains some of his finest drawings. Date: 1918

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library

Advert for the Radiation New World Gas Cooker 1938

Are you a slave to your cooker'? The new world 45/48 gas cookers with exclusive regulo control. Power burners to give more concentrated heat. Self-lighting hotplate burners with radiation patent non-lighting back feature. Stay clean hotplate spotless with wipe. Non-spill support for the smallest pans. Table top finish cooking shut the lid, and there you are all enclosed. Super grill at toasting heat in 60 seconds from cold. Date: 1938

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Gas advertisement 1954

Advertisement by the Gas Industry promoting the use of coal-fired gas as fuel for gas cookers in the 1950s home. To drive home the point, the picture depicts an archetypal glamorous fifties house wife enjoying a hug and peck on the cheek from her husband as she takes a perfectly baked pie out of the oven

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans