Flour Collection

Old Towngate - Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Old Towngate, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. Holmfirth has become well known as the location of the situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine

Wheat or bread wheat, Triticum vulgare. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Cranfield Brothers Ltd Flour Millers - Works Charabanc Outing, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Showing The Charabanc Marguerite Date: 1920s

Nigeria - A Yoruba Grocer Date: circa 1920s

The Croton Flour Mills of George V. Hecker & Co. - New York
The Croton Flour Mills of George V. Hecker & Co. - 199, 201 and 203 Cherry Street, New York, USA. The old windmill of 1776 and the modern mill of 1876. Date: circa 1890

Range of bakery tools and ingredients
A range of bakery tools and ingredients, including a pair of scales, a bucket, a sieve, mixing paddles and a sack of flour

Older Woman Baking 1947
An older woman wearing a flowery apron rolls out pastry for some home baking

J Mercer. The Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts... 20th century

Pow Street, Workington, Cumbria, UK
Scene in Pow Street, Workington, Cumbria, UK. circa 1910s

Thessaloniki - Salep Merchant. Salep flour is consumed in beverages and desserts, especially in places that were formerly part of the Ottoman Empire

Delivering Flour to the Queen Mary
Josph Rank Ltd. Millers - delivering Flour to the RMS Queen Mary, then Britains largest ship. She sailed primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line. Date: 1936

Scene in the International Stores, Crediton, Devon, with two middle-aged women chatting in an aisle. The photograph dates from before decimalisation of the currency -- tins of peaches are priced at

Cookery Magazine 1917
A wartime issue of this popular cookery magazine - Splendid Flour Substitute recipes, Making the meat go round, the sugar shortage, How to save bread

Flour Mill 1930S
A miller at work among the cogs and machinery of an old mill, crushing wheat grain to make flour. Date: 1930s

Recipe for Pudding
Recipe for Christmas Pudding using McDougalls Flour

Payns sure-raising flour

Mcdougalls Cake
Traditional Christmas Cake made with McDougalls flour Date: 1931

A selection of funnels, food warmers and flour bins. Date: circa 1900

Bakers Shop / Loaves
A scene in a bakery, with the preparation and baking of standard size loaves of white bread

Woman and vegetable stall, East End of London
Woman selling vegetables from a stall in a market in Londons East End. The prices are in old currency, with D for penny. Date: circa 1950s

Chinese rice mill with blindfolded mules turning a millstone, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin

Cleobury Mortimer corn mill
The miller carries a sack of corn for grinding at Cleobury Mortimer mill, Shropshire England. First published The Daily Telgraph Date: 1986

Carrying flour, Gorumna, West of Ireland, early 1900s

Bosley Mill, Cheshire, early 1900s

Illustration of the CWS Sun Flour Mill, Trafford, Manchester

Seed and corn merchant, Uxbridge, early 1900s

Illustration, Mr Spider comes to stay - windmill with spider and large cobweb Date: 1924

Advertisement for Hovis Bread and Biscuits. Illustration of loaves of bread cascading from a flour mill across the world. Captioned Drive the World, Cure for Indigestion

Mrs Mills the Miller's Wife

Mr Mills the Miller

Commercial Poster McDougall's Flour
A commercial advertising poster promoting McDougall's Self-Raising Flour. For cakes that cause delight this phrase is emphasised by the large image of a young boy smiling with a laughing face of

A windmill on the Greek Island of Mykanos
A windmill (traditional flour mill) on the Greek Island of Mykanos. This particular mill is likely the Bonis Windmill. Date: circa 1950s

Sylvie Flour in Mille & Une Nuits at the Theatre du
Sylvie Flour as the First Bazaar Merchant in Mille & Une Nuits at the Theatre du Chatelet, 1881. Handcoloured lithograph by Chatiniere published by Martinet, Paris, 1881

Singer Marguerite Priola as Abeille in the comic opera l Ombre performed at the Theatre Imperial de l Opera-Comique, 1870. Handcoloured lithograph by Chatiniere published by Martinet, Paris, 1870

Village of El Querebya under the Funj Kingdom
Village of El Querebya (El Querebyn) under the Funj Kingdom of Sennar, Sudan. In the village of round huts on the Blue Nile

Stationery, G H Oldham, Artox Bread and Flour
Stationery, G H Oldham, confectioner, Artox Bread and Flour. 1900

WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France - unloading flour supplies for the troops " (to) help them march to victory". Date: circa 1944

Preparing bread from the manioc root
Natives of Madagascar preparing bread from the manioc root. Date: 1834

Kitchen Utensils Date: 1954

ALCINOUS HANDMILL / C17TH
Alcinous handmill in operation. Date: 17th century

DEANES FLOUR MILL
Deanes Patent Economic Flour Mill, operated by hand. Date: 1851

Cleobury Mortimer mill wheels
The miller grinds corn on original mill wheels at the Cleobury Mortimer mill, Shropshire England. First published The Times Date: 1986

Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai, India
Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai (Madras), India Date: circa 1920

Hughes, Dickson Ltd, Flour Mill and Falls Road. Methodist Church, Divis St. Belfast - a view of the large flour mill with horse and carts and people outside and the Church next to it

Boatmens Children - pounding rice - India Date: circa 1910s

Ration Card
Ration card for one months provision of bread or flour

Advert / Flour Coombs
Coombs Flour

MAKING CHRISTMAS CAKE
Making a Christmas cake, beating eggs to add to the butter and sugarr, with other ingredients, such as flour, dried sultanas, etc. to be added later. Date: 1930s

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