Dinner Collection

The Upside Down Dinner given by the Hendon Aviators to Bentfield Hucks and Gustav Hamel at the Royal Automobile Club on 16 January 1914

The It Girl by George Whitelaw
Colour illustration showing an attractive socialite surrounded by attentive gentlemen

Queen Elizabeth II and the Kennedys
President John F Kennedy and his wife Jackie, pictured with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at a State dinner party given at Buckingham Palace during a visit by the Kennedys

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

Edmundo Ros Club in Regent Street, London drawn by Arthur Ferrier. Couples sit at lamplit tables while people dance, the band plays and the singer croons

Bob Cratchit & Tiny Tim
Happy at the prospect of a hearty Christmas dinner, due to the generosity of the reformed Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit carries his son Tiny Tim on his shoulder!

One of the Famly - a horse joins a family meal
One of the Family by Frederick George Cotman (original in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool). Cotman painted this romantic scene of rustic domestic life at the Black Boy Inn at Hurley on Thames

Suffragettes - Christmas Dinner in Holloway by Lawson Wood
Four portly prison officers and policemen force feed a handcuffed suffragette Christmas pudding from the police buffet trolley in Holloway Prison. Date: 1912

Hills. Christmas Is Coming. Cecil Aldin. 1898. jpg
Illustration by Cecil Aldin depicting a kindly Father Christmas reciting the traditional song, " Christmas is Coming, the Goose is getting Fat" to a gaggle of obviously dim geese

The Gentleman Who Asked the Carver - H. M. Bateman
The Gentleman who asked the carver at Simpson s-in-the-Strand whether the meat was English or foreign. A curious and innocent question from a diner at the famous English restaurant causing more than

The Toast by William Heath Robinson
A charming and detailed scene showing a large extended family, or possibly group of villagers drinking a toast around a large table groaning with delicious fruit pies, turkey, jelly, soup

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

Black Waiter with Thanksgiving Turkey
A jovial black waiter in America raises aloft the Thanksgiving Turkey on this Greetings card

Golf Clubs and Golfers - Royal Blackheath dinner
Annual dinner of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club by Mel; the club was founded in 1608. Date: 1938

The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before The Royal Toast - Bateman
The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before The Royal Toast - H M Bateman. This illustration shows an arrogant man who has defied etiquette by lighting his cigar before the correct course of dinner

Market Reports - English Country Squire carves the beef
Market Reports illustrated (Postcard series): MEAT: " English beef was in fine condition." This report on English beef (as a commodity traded on the Stock Exchange)

Young woman washing clothes at a sink
A young woman at a kitchen sink washing clothes using a washboard. There is a stack of four dinner plates waiting to be washed up, a kettle, and a tin of One-O-One which cleans without scratching

Claridges Hotel Menu
A dinner menu from the Claridges Hotel, London

Fashionable Night-Spot
Smart people in a fashionable Paris nightclub. Dining and dancing and showing off their elegant evening clothes and dinner jacket

Christmas Cookery C1905
Preparing the Christmas dinner for all the family, not forgetting the kitten and the Household Gnome

Dinner given by Alexander Duckham at the Savoy Hotel honouring Louis Ble

Dewars advertisement
Advertisement for Dewars White Label whiskey showing four gentlemen smartly attired in evening wear enjoying a game of cards - and a glass of Dewar s. 1934

A Bonzo juggling act
Bonzo, the cute canine created by artist George Studdy in The Sketch magazine during the 1920s, performs a marvellous trick by balancing a plate, cutlery

Mr Pickwick Addresses
Mr Pickwick addresses the Club

Modern Style Home
A suburban home in the modern style - a visitor arrives for dinner

Mytton Rides Bear
JOHN MYTTON English eccentric decides to enliven a dinner party by riding a bear into the dining -room. The bear bit him on the calf & the doctor was called

Dinner in an aristocratic French home, with servants attending to everyones needs

Workers Going Home
Workers going home for their dinner (at mid-day) from the Great Western Railways works at Wolverton

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh arrive at Ethiopian Embassy
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, arriving at the Ethiopian Embassy for a private dinner party given by the Emperor of Ethiopia (Haile Selassie) during a visit to Britain

Cats enjoying a dinner party on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

CROWE, Eyre (1824-1910). The Dinner Hour, Wigan. 1874. Oil on canvas. UNITED KINGDOM. Manchester. Manchester Art Gallery

Dinner Party at Home
A lavish dinner party takes place in a French household

Dinner Key Miami - Terminal Building, Florida, USA
The Terminal Building - Dinner Key, Coconut Grove neighborhood, Miami, Florida, USA. Pan American Airways Clipper Flying Boats - Sikorsky S-40R - only three ever built

A sketch of a girl as part of the living Christmas pie, American millionaires surpised their guests with, 1923 Date: 1923

Bill of fare from Crystal Palace, 31 / 12 / 1853
Menu for the dinner in the Iguanodon and original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Hungry Peter the pigs dinner party, with Tabitha the cat, Humpty and Dumpty the rabbits, two ducks (the Quacks), and two dogs (Rags and Forager) gathered round a long table. Date: 1914

A Little Supper Party by Hal Bevan Petman
Front cover of The Bystander featuring an illustration of a flirtatious looking flapper girl, enjoying a drink and a cigarette, but, apparently, very little food

Wartime cuisine - fish and chips
Wartime rashioning during the Second World War. A plate of steak and veg is a dream, but at least there is still fish and chips to keep the spirits up and the bellies full! Date: circa early 1940s

Crokett - Le Jongleur Humoriste
Poster for Crokett - Le Jongleur Humoriste (The Juggler Comedian)

Christmas Dinner in an Elizabethan Home by Pauline Baynes
A Christmas Day scene in a well-to-do household around 1550, showing the father of the house at the table with his guests, raising his blackjack tankard to toast the Queen

Victorian family saying grace before dinner
A Victorian family saying grace at the dinner table

Strauss / Rosenkavalier / 6
ROSENKAVALIER the Princess of Werdenberg unites Count Octavian and Sophie von Faninal

Claridges Restaurant
Dining at CLARIDGEs HOTEL, Brook Street, is apt to be pricey - dinner could set you back anything from ten shillings and sixpence to twelve shillings and sixpence

Man falling off a broken chair at a dinner party causing a servant to spill a soup tureen over him. Other guests shocked, servants amused. More Miseries

Advert for the London fashion house of Fifinella, 1920 Date: 1920

Costume June 1886
Hand-coloured page of the latest Paris fashion of 1886, dinner dresses with drapped swags and flower arrangements, ball dresses with long gloves and fans and traditional garden party frocks

Views of Golden Lane, London 1872
Views of Golden Lane, near Smithfield Market, in London, 1872. Illustrations (clockwise from top left): The Earls Barrow; Making trimmings for Soup Kitchens; China Yard on Saturday Afternoon; a

Berkleley Hotel Dinner
Dinner at the Berkeley Hotel, London, on a Sunday evening Date: 1914

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