Food Collection (#89)

Cubs in refectory, Baden Powell House, London
Cubs queueing for food in the refectory of Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Women and girls in refectory, Baden Powell House, London
Women and girls in the refectory of Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Dining room of Baden Powell House, London
People eating and serving in the dining room of Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Wayside food stall, Japan

Food Stall, Japan

Rene Fraser cooking dinner on the G. Union Canal in 1930. Date: 1930

The Great Kitchen at Brighton Pavilion
The Great Kitchen at Brighton Royal Pavilion, complete with decorative cast iron palm tree columns

Baking your own bread, WW1
First World War advertisement from the British Commercial Gas Association, suggesting that, with the reduction in the number of bakers throughout the country

Scenes on the Eastern front in silhouette, WW1
Silhouettes by a Russian cavalry officer depicting scenes a Cossack food convoy being attacked by Uhlans (ultimately a fruitless exercise). Date: 1915

Queen Alexandra serving at London Bridge buffet, WW1
Queen Alexandra pictured serving soldiers at the free buffet organised by Lady Limerick at London Bridge station in December 1915

Buffet for soldiers at Victoria Station, WW1
Various scenes at the free buffet for soldiers and sailors at Victoria railway station in London. The buffet, staffed by volunteers

Food panic at the outbreak of World War One
Illustration depicting the sad fate of a family stricken with war panic which was so prominent during the first week of the war

Biscuits & Beef, British soldiers rations, WW1
A humorous cartoon by a serving soldier, Sapper E. G. Eschini showing a British soldier gnawing at the tough and unpalatable biscuits and beef, typical rations during the First World War. Date: 1917

Pomeroy skin food advertisement, skincare for munition worke
Advertisement for Pomeroy skin food, ideal for vanquishing the complexion ills of Munition work during the First World War. 1917

The Food Problem, WW1 cartoon by Fish
Professor of Economics (to Hostess): Pardon! - my bread, I believe. Polite society begin to squablle over portions as food shortages take hold in the latter part of the First World War. Date: 1917

Free buffet for soldiers & sailor, Victoria station, WW1
The free buffet for soldiers and sailors at Victoria Station, staffed by volunteers during the First World War to provide free food and drink to soldiers and sailors returning from the Front

Soldiers released by the War Office for land 1917
Helping to feed the nation: Convalescents ploughing hospital ground; a farm party. Upper photograph, shows convalescent soldiers at a hospital in one of the home countries

Winter rations for British troops in the trenches 1917
British commissariat methods: Army ration corps supplying hot food to the men in the trenches at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France; serving hot stew in bad weather often added very

Cooking food for army in the field WWI
Various types of ovens and kitchens, from brick and clay ovens, parallel kitchen, broad arrow kitchen, aldershot ovens and internally heated oven burrowed into the side of a bank. Date: 1915

That Sword by B Bairnsfather
A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather in which the imagined and actual usages of a sword in the First World War are juxtaposed. Date: 1915

Maison Lyons advertisement, WW1
An advertisement for the newly opened Lyons cafe opened up on Oxford Street opposite Bond Street tube in 1916, with a cake stand laden with dainty confections to tempt customers. Date: 1916

Birds Custard advertisement, WW1
An advertisement for Birds custard featuring a little soldier, marching off to war with a box of powder on his back. Date: 1916

Women farm workers 1917
First World War women farm workers, sorting potatoes into sizes to be sent to London. Date: 1917

Advert for Barker & Dobson Viking chocolates 1923
At the top of the tree, for purity, value and delicious flavour are Barker & Dobson Viking chocolates. 1923

Making a German officers mess a success by W H Robinson
Humorous drawings by William Heath Robinson, of German officers mess, including preparing toast for tea during an advance, cavalry officer having a bath, having a quite cup of tea while on horseback

Mrs C. S. Peel, 1917
Dorothy Constance Peel, 1868-1934, aka Mrs CS Peel, prolific journalist and writer of numerous books on household management and domestic history

Light luncheons by W H Robinson
Couple having a picnic by sitting on the bonnet and boot of the car, and using the flat roof as the table. 1919

British soldier cooks dinner on a brazier in trench
Somewhere in France, a British soldier cooks his dinner on a brazier in the trenches while his comrades keep a look out. Date: 1915

British soldier working on the land, WW1
A British soldier driving a plough during the First World War. Owing to the lateness of the years sowing in 1916, due to bad weather and shortage of labour

The Womens Legion & Army Waste, WW1
Women inspecting copper vats filled with boiling soup, involved in a scheme originated by Lady Londonderry to lessen waste in camp kitchens

Christmas Dinner in the trenches by Charles Crombie
" God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen, may nothing you dismay" - a festive view of a British trench on the Western Front with soldiers, rather implausibly

Christmas Puddings for the Front
Mrs Buckley of Birmingham, the wife of Captain Frank Buckley of the 17th Middlesex Regiment, with her impressive pile of 420 hand-cooked Christmas puddings for Birmingham soldiers at the front

Vegetable seller and donkey, Naples, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Fish vendor, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Winnowing rice, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Rice harvest, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Ox cart with rice bales, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

People harvesting rice, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Doctor and patient, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Three women preparing a meal, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Vegetable stall, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Fruit stall, Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
People at a fruit stall in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Street scene with bread vendor, Turkey. Date: circa 1870

Pastry vendor, Egypt, in a studio photo. Date: circa 1870

Food factory(?), China
Scene in what appears to be some kind of food factory, China. Date: circa 1890

Trench Cooking for Women
Cookery lessons in a trench dug-out - a special feature at Kings College for Women, London, as training for nurses leaving for the front. Date: 1915

Christmas dinner at the Front 1916
Soldiers eating a hot meal during Christmas at the front, in World War I. 1916

Bonzo is hoist with his own petard! by George Studdy
Bonzo is hoist with his own petard! He pulls at the tablecloth, and manages to break a plate and cover his bone with some kind of sauce or custard. Date: 1924

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