Meal Time Collection

Heath Robinson automated Dining Room without servants 1 of 4
Heath Robinson Does Away with Servants - Patent Applied for by " The Sketch" in the Dining-Room. A family at their dining table, which is a typically Heath Robinson design

A Bonzo juggling act
Bonzo, the cute canine created by artist George Studdy in The Sketch magazine during the 1920s, performs a marvellous trick by balancing a plate, cutlery

Lin-Can advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Lin-Can tinned fruits and vegetables manufactured by Lincolnshire Canners of Boston, Lincolnshire, featuring two excitable housewives keen to demonstrate the endless possibilities

Girl saying Grace but pet dog unwilling
" Fold Your hands Bob!" A pretty young girl says Grace, but is slightly affronted that her pet dog Bob is unwilling to join in and fold his paws together respectfully.... Date: circa 1910

Breakfast by Muriel Dawson
A jolly little girl with brown hair and eyes sips from a mug decorated with a painting of a cockerel

Victorian family saying grace before dinner
A Victorian family saying grace at the dinner table

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White makes herself useful in the home of the Seven Dwarfs

Midday mealtime, Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
Prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs prison, west London, return to their individual cells for their midday dinner. Uniformed prison warders watch as prisoners climb the metal staircases to the galleries

Family Camping Meal
Mealtime for this close family on their camping holiday. Date: 1950s

Gipsy Encampment Meal
Mother gets the fire ready to cook the food in huge pots at a gipsy encampment, while the menfolk mind the children on the caravan steps, England. Date: 1930s

German Family at Table
The family of a German burgher share a meal together round a table. The son of the family says grace while one of the smaller children appears to be sitting dangerously close to a roaring fire

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

Soldiers preparing a meal 1917
Soldiers preparing a meal on the British Front in France during World War I in 1917

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

Hot stew in the trenches 1917
British troops receive hot stew in the trenches near Cambrai in France on the British front during World War I in March 1917

An Astronomical Note
A Second Eclipse of the Sun. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Queen Victoria photographed with the Battenbergs at Windsor
Mealtime at Windsor in 1895: Queen Victoria sits at the dining table with Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg and three of their four children - Leopold (left, on the booster cushion)

Midd. Class Boarding Hse
Dinner in a boarding house

Emigrant Ship Mealtime
Chaos ensues between decks on an emigrant ship during feeding time as the passengers jostle and push as the food is dished onto plates

Greek Family Meal
A Greek family at mealtime

French Naval Mess
French sailors at mealtime

Mealtime in Barracks
Infantry in barracks at their midday meal

Adoption Society Meal
Mealtime for a group of National Adoption Society children

Monks at Mealtime
Friday Though they have vowed to eat no meat on Friday, monks are allowed plenty of wine with their Friday meal of fish

Food / Dinner / 1356, France
Mealtime at the chateau de Rouen; Charles, duc de Normandie, is at table when his father Jean II arrives unexpectedly

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