Duck Gallery

Bray near Maidenhead, Berkshire

The village of Bray near Maidenhead, Berkshire. The Hinds Head pub (at rear) is now owned and run by Heston Blumenthal and 'The Ringers' (on right) is now his celebrated restaurant 'The Fat Duck', where you can eat snail porridge (amongst other well-known delicacies...). Date: 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Oxyura jamaicensis, ruddy duck

Plate 343 from John James Audubon's Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London. Date:

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

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Graham and Withers butchers shop, Bromley, Kent

Arthur Graham and Albert William Withers, butchers shop, 80 College Road, Bromley, Kent -- an amazing array of meat and poultry, with shop owners and assistants standing ready to serve. The partnership was dissolved in 1936 and Withers continued to run the business.
circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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