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Hob Collection

Background imageHob Collection: Woman Cooking 1960S

Woman Cooking 1960S
A woman in an apron holds a saucepan ready over the hob as she turns it on

Background imageHob Collection: KETTLE CAT

KETTLE CAT
A ginger cat about to be boiled in a kettle on the kitchen hob!

Background imageHob Collection: Cover design, Over 120 Ways of Using Bread

Cover design, Over 120 Ways of Using Bread for tasty and delightful dishes. Showing a woman in her kitchen, enjoying some of the results of her baking. Date: circa 1940s

Background imageHob Collection: The Song the Kettle is Singing

The Song the Kettle is Singing (in a dear little place called home) - written and composed by Worton David and Lawrence Wright - sung with enormous success by Miss Florrie Forde and Miss Dora Lyric

Background imageHob Collection: Advert for Wellstood cooking ranges, from Smith and Wellstood. Date: 1932

Advert for Wellstood cooking ranges, from Smith and Wellstood. Date: 1932

Background imageHob Collection: Young woman cooking in a kitchen

Young woman cooking in a kitchen Date: circa 1990s

Background imageHob Collection: Interior of Court of Exchequer Chamber, showing the ancient ceremony of chopping sticks

Interior of Court of Exchequer Chamber, showing the ancient ceremony of chopping sticks and counting horse-shoes and hob-nails, this tradition was abolition in 1882. Date: 1844

Background imageHob Collection: Pan Catching Fire

Pan Catching Fire
A cautionary tale in the use of pans which are not made of aluminium branded with an official safety mark from the Societe Francaise des Metaux Ouvres ! Date: 1928

Background imageHob Collection: Presentation of the new Sheriffs of London at Westminster

Presentation of the new Sheriffs of London at Westminster
Ancient ceremony of chopping sticks, and counting horse-shoes and hob-nails, in the Court of the Exchequer. Date: 1844

Background imageHob Collection: Advertising card for Belgian Cooking Range

Advertising card for Belgian Cooking Range, manufactured by Ch. Van Ackere & Co. - similar in style to an Aga. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageHob Collection: Music cover, The Old Kitchen Kettle Keeps Singing a Song

Music cover, The Old Kitchen Kettle Keeps Singing a Song! By Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly. 1932

Background imageHob Collection: Cruikshank / Indigestion

Cruikshank / Indigestion
An early 19th century gentlemans self-contained room. It includes a hob grate, letter rack, wash stand, curtained off bed, pelmet & curtains, table, rug & fender

Background imageHob Collection: The Empire Cookery Book - Glamorous woman cooking

The Empire Cookery Book - Glamorous woman cooking up a storm in her 1920s kitchen. Date: 1920s

Background imageHob Collection: The Empire Cookery Book - Glamorous woman tastes some soup

The Empire Cookery Book - Glamorous woman tastes some soup. Date: 1920s

Background imageHob Collection: Eagle - Old Silent Inn, Hob Lane, Stanbury, Yorkshire

Eagle - Old Silent Inn, Hob Lane, Stanbury, Yorkshire
Eagle/Old Silent Inn, Hob Lane, Stanbury, Keighley, near Howarth, Yorkshire, England. Prop: James Stubbins Date: 1910s

Background imageHob Collection: Fire safety in the kitchen

Fire safety in the kitchen -- a burning frying pan

Background imageHob Collection: Wartime information poster, WW2

Wartime information poster, WW2
Wartime information poster -- turn that GAS down! Less gas -- more ships. Date: 1940s

Background imageHob Collection: Farmhouse Shop

Farmhouse Shop
People You See. From Teddy Bear (9 April 1966)

Background imageHob Collection: LCC-LFB - Safety in the home, fire prevention campaign

LCC-LFB - Safety in the home, fire prevention campaign
A photograph from the Brigades fire prevention campaign. The hazards of drying cloths and teatowels over a lit gas cooker are highlighted, showing how this could lead to fires

Background imageHob Collection: Advert for Bon Ami powder

Advert for Bon Ami powder
Bon Ami - gives nickel the glow of polished silver, a damp cloth, a bit of a rub, a moments wait while the magic-white cloud foams..... then whisk

Background imageHob Collection: Interior of kitchen, Strangeways Prison, Manchester

Interior of kitchen, Strangeways Prison, Manchester
The interior of a prison kitchen, believed to be at Strangeways Prison, Manchester. The room is filled with assorted boilers, coppers, ovens and cooking hobs. Much of the cooking was done using steam

Background imageHob Collection: Algerian Moorish Cafe

Algerian Moorish Cafe
Moorish Cafe in Algeria - interior

Background imageHob Collection: Kitchen of the Commercial Religious Institute, Istanbul

Kitchen of the Commercial Religious Institute, Istanbul
Kitchen of the Commercial Religious Institute - Establishment of the Brothers at Kadikoy, Constantinople

Background imageHob Collection: Gas advertisement 1954

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

Background imageHob Collection: Housewife Using a Modern Gas Cooker

Housewife Using a Modern Gas Cooker
The housewifes best friend is a modern gas cooker equipped with every convenience for cooking food scientifically and daintily

Background imageHob Collection: Quaker Oats Ad 1931

Quaker Oats Ad 1931
Advert for Quick Quaker Oats which can be knocked up in moments by a young housewife on the hob of a cooker before her hard working husband goes off to the office

Background imageHob Collection: Boiling Soup

Boiling Soup
A young mother stirs a saucepan of soup on the cooker, watched by her little boy!

Background imageHob Collection: Girls in German Kitchen

Girls in German Kitchen
Two little girls search for something in the kitchen cupboard, while food cooks on the hob

Background imageHob Collection: Girl in Chemise Cooks

Girl in Chemise Cooks
A young woman in a chemise with threaded ribbon detail, a flat pair of mules & with a door-knocker top knot hairstyle, stirs a saucepan. Her cat sits by his food


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