Housewives Collection

English Rose kitchen advert, woman with desserts
Advertisement for English Rose Kitchen Equipment featuring a young housewife with a tea trolley and a selection of desserts, cakes and tea. Date: 1952

WW2 - Chef cooking in a bombed-out street - Blitz, London
WW2 - His restaurant and kitchen destroyed by German bombing, a Chef continues to cook al fresco in a bombed-out street - Blitz, London. Date: circa 1941

1930s woman cooking in her kitchen
A woman stands at a kitchen pantry or dresser trying out new recipes. Attached to the work service is a hand operated meat mincer. Date: c.1930

Advert for English Rose kitchens 1952
Young housewife cooking in her new English Rose fitted kitchen. Comes with a cause of softglow worktop colours, scarlet red, steel blue and amulet green. Date: 1952

Pancake Race / Olney
SHROVE TUESDAY The starter line for the Olney pancake race, 1951, which has been held in the village for over 500 years. Any Olney woman over 18 can compete. Date: 1951

Cookery demonstration
Eager housewives enjoying an in-store cookery demonstration Date: circa 1960

LCC election leaflet, Conservative Party
Conservative Party London County Council Election Leaflet, 7 March 1946 Date: 1946

Cartoons showing the activities of a diligent wartime housewife, operating without the assistance of a maid. Date: 1943

Scene from the annual celebrations of Dr. Barnardo's Homes in The Royal Albert Hall. Here in the Training Housewives display, the young women demonstrate laundry work

Comic postcard, Two women listen to radio - Housewives Choice Date: 20th century

Housewives Conference, 1947
Page from The Sphere, 20 September 1947 reporting on the Housewives League Meeting at Central Hall

W. V. S. Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven
A W.V.S. (Womens Voluntary Service) Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven out of bricks, a piece of metal plate and a broken piece of drainpipe. Date: circa 1941

Food Queues in London owing to shortages
Food Queues in London owing to shortage of supplies. People waiting to get 2 ounces only Date: 1918

Public learn of Constitutional Crisis in the British Royalty
December 3rd, 1936 - A group of women discuss the Constitutional Crisis in the British Royalty they have been reading about in their newspaper Date: 1936

French Washerwomen - Saint-Pierre-en-Port, France
French Washerwomen doing their laundry in the rock pools at Saint-Pierre-en-Port, in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region of France. Date: circa 1908

A stout, jolly housewifes enjoys a mid-morning cup of tea and a chat with her cat before getting on with her daily chores

Salvan, Switzerland - Millionaires Street
Salvan in the district of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais, Switzerland - Millionaires Street Date: circa 1905

New Zealand lamb advert, 1952
Advert for New Zealand lamb, 1952, featuring a housewife saying, " when its New Zealand, its good." Theres a nod to rationing

Housewife 1940S
A bored housewife re-arranges her fruit in the bowl on the table of her panelled dining room. Date: 1940s

Exhausted Housewife
A young overworked housewife or stressed out working woman with a sore neck, lies back in a comfortable armchair and puts her feet up on a leather footstool. Date: early 1930s

Housewife W / Soup 1930
A pretty young housewife carries a dish full of hot soup. Date: 1930

Advert for Min Cream, polish for furniture 1936
Its a matter of moments with Min. Use it on your piano or dining table and see what a beautiful, lustrous sheen it gives to polished wood. Date: 1936

Advert for Mansion polish 1937
The bright way to lovely floors. Floor retain there loveliness far longer when polished with Masion Polish. A single application will keep a floor looking bright and fresh for days. 1937

Collection of TV Rental
Collection of TV rental from two housewives Date: 1930s

Comic Postcard - Housewives Choice! A queue of young ladies excitedly wait their turn to meet their new pop music idol at the stage door. Date: circa 1950s

Ladies complaining od bad language from the pub
It must have been awful. Mrs Baggs: (after receiving a tornado of abuse from over the road) " Well, I never eard sich langwidge in all my life.I never was called such names before

Indian Village Life - Separating Butter and Crushing Spices. This is from the North West Frontier Province, then Northern India on the border with Afghanistan - now part of Pakistan

Public Washing facility - Antibes, France
Public Washing facility ( Lavoir ) - Antibes, France Date: circa 1910s

Paris Bread Shortage
Paris housewives queue at the door of a boulangerie, during a bread shortage which causes fierce rioting and upsets the government Date: November 1794

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