Lunch Collection (page 6)

The harvest lunch. Date c1881 Dec. 19

Oil field worker eating lunch, Kilgore, Texas. Date 1939 Apr

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Oil worker eating lunch. Kilgore, Texas. Date 1939 Apr

Oil field worker drinking a bottle of milk at lunch, Kilgore, Texas. Date 1939 Apr

French soldiers eating, 1939
A group of French soldiers enjoying lunch outdoors while standing up in the early weeks of World War II. Date: 1939

Cafe decorated for George VI Coronation, Walton, Essex
A cafe on the High Street, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, decorated to celebrate the Coronation of King George VI. There are advertisements for Cooked Meats, Breakfasts, Luncheons, Teas

Lord Mayors Show with Wellington and Roundheads
A participant in the Lord Mayors Show, City of London, dressed as the Duke of Wellington, with three Roundheads from the Civil War period, enjoying lunch together. circa 1911

Silhouette, Back at 12. 30
Silhouette of a man walking away, entitled Back at 12.30. No doubt a notice which H. L. Oakley displayed during his lunch breaks!

Cartoon - The Officers Mess
The Officers Mess! Four young boys playing at being soldiers act in a very un-soldier-like manner, eating, drinking and generally lounging about! Date: circa 1915

Switzerland - Pigs take a nap after lunch
Switzerland - A group of pigs take a nap after lunch on a Swiss hillside farm Date: circa 1910s

Girls Swimming
Young ladies of the R.C.C. club take a cold dip in a stream after a picnic lunch, watched by a group of local men across the riverbank! Date: 1930s

Working Horse Lunch
A little girl in a bathing costume feeds a working horse at the seaside, probably Ramsgate or Margate, Kent, England. Date: early 1930s

Victoria Tower Gardens
People relaxing in Victoria Tower Gardens, at the foot of Lambeth Bridge, with the the Houses of Parliament beyond, on a warm Sunday afternoon, London, England. Date: 1950s

Liquid Lunch

World War Two Rationing - Christmas Dinner in pill form - rather meagre Fare. Date: circa 1941

American soldiers at Citroen Munitions, France, WW1
American soldiers lunching at Citroen Munitions in France during the First World War. Date: August 1918

Officers of 1st Connaught Rangers, Palestine, WW1
Officers of the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers at lunch during their march from Nazareth, which they left on 17 November 1918 after being on garrison there since 27 September

Poster advertising War Savings Certificates. One workman tells another that its worth while. 1940s

Royal family having lunch
Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh pictured sitting around the dinner table with their two eldest children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Date: 1969

Polish Scouts at the 1957 World Jamboree 1957

Louis Bleriot with Lord Northcliffe at the Savoy
Louis Bleriot (1872 - 1936), French aviator, engineer and inventor and the first person to cross the Channel in an aircraft

Edward, Prince of Wales, at the American Officers Club
Edward, Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII), at the American Officers Club, having lunch with Sir Harry Brittain (Club Chairman, centre) and others during the First World War

Kaiser Wilhelm II at lunch in the field, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor (centre), with army officers, eating lunch in the field during a visit to the Western Front, First World War. Date: June 1918

Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur - Refreshment seller
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur - Streetside Refreshment seller Date: circa 1910s

Beaver Scouts in Falkoping sitting in a circle eating lunch. circa 1980s

Picnic by the seaside
A couple have a picnic by the seaside, using a fishing boat as a shelter from the stiff breeze (possibly!)... Date: circa 1940s

Queen Elizabeth II with nuclear scientists
Commonwealth nuclear scientists entertained to lunch at Balmoral by Queen Elizabeth II in 1958. The forty scientists were part of a tour of the nuclear power stations of Britain - the idea being

Picking up provisions - Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
A small steam-powered sardine fishing boat picks up provisions for the fishermen crew from a beach at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, South west France. Date: 1906

Paris Factory Girls 1894
Paris factory women during their lunch break Date: 1895

Service Fitness Class
A Fitness for Service womens class attended twice a week during lunch hours. Fitness classes, keep fit Date: late 1930s

Workers Lunch Break
Production of Harris Tweed. A party of workers take a break for lunch. Date: circa 1940

Tea for Two by Muriel Dawson
Two young children sit at a trestle table and enjoy a snack, possibly elevenses or supper

The Humorist Summer Number 1939
Bright and jolly front cover design for The Humorist magazine Summer Number by William Heath Robinson featuring a number of bathers paddling and playing about in the sea

Roughing it at Brighton / Ally Sloper
Having been refused by the majority of hotels in Brighton, Ally Sloper decides to make the best of it on the beach instead, where he cooks up a hearty lunch of sausage and mash

Mother & children at table
A mother sits down to a meal with her two little daughters, and ladles soup into bowls

Tbilisi - Lunch on the Balcony of the Funicular Railway Stat
Lunch on the Balcony of the Funicular Railway Station at Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis

WWII recycling: Tin hat soup tureen / W H Robinson
A retired warden makes use of his old tin hat to eat his soup from. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Central France - Soup of the Day
Central France - A farming family tuck into the Soup of the Day

Eating lunch in China
A lovely photograph of three Chinese workers (of very different ages) having their rice for lunch. The padded clothing attests to either the season or the type of labout they were occupied in

Bosnia - Sarajevo - Lunchtime
An old Bosnian man tucks into his lunch in a Sarajevo Market. He appears to be eating some form of folded flatbread

Young boy eating a large sandwich
A young boy poses for a studio portrait on a pile of logs, eating a large (and rather appealing) sandwich. He wears a bright green flat cap. A Birthday Greetings Card

California Alligator Farm - Los Angeles
Lunchtime at a California Alligator Farm, Los Angeles. A whole host of Alligators tuck into what appears to be a rather small quantity of meat! Two are so excited they have rolled over

Dining car on the Great Northern Railway

Picnic by the roadside
Having a picnic by the roadside - tucking into a thermos of hot tea!

Picnic out of the boot of a Morris 8 E-series
Enjoying a picnic out of the boot of a Morris 8 E series 4 door Six Light

Roadside picnic
Stopping for a picnic at the side of the road

Mealtime at the front in 1917
Soldiers of the Newfoundland regiment in Berneville eating a meal on the British Front in France during World War I on 9th May 1917

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