Meal Collection (page 9)

French Dining Car
Paaengers travelling from Le Havre to Trouville (or vice versa) enjoy a meal in the dining car. Date: 1884

French Dining Car - 2
Rail passengers in France enjoy a meal in the wagon restaurant. Date: 1881

Christmas Cake / 1930S
A delicious looking cake complete with festive decoration Date: 1930s

Two Dogs Share Meal
An elegant lady dines in a Paris restaurant, with her two well-behaved dogs seated on either side of her. Date: 1908

Two at End of Meal 1907
A smart young couple smoke and drink champagne at the end of a meal, as some musicians play in the background. Date: 1907

Cartoon, The final shot. The armistice might have been signed, but there are still bills to pay. While he pays for their expensive meal, she nonchalantly powders her nose. Date: 1919

Outdoor Restaurant 1909
Diners enjoy a meal outdoors whilst a band plays music. Date: 1909

Social / Coolies Breakfast
Chinese coolies eating a meal in a snowy street at Beijing (Peking) Date: circa 1929

French Rural Family
A farmer and his family, with labourers and dog, share a meal together. Date: 1897

Nice, France Restaurant
A couple enjoying a meal on the terrace of a restaurant in Nice, France. An attentive waiter pours dressing on their salad. Date: early 1970s

Air Stewardess 1960
An Air Stewardess serves a meal aboard a BEA flight from London to Gibraltar. Date: 1960

Parisian Pays Meal Bill
A customer pays his bill in a Paris restaurant Date: 1833

A Family Meal
A girl holds out her glass for a refill of wine while Papa records the scene for us Date: 23 June 1911

Sabbat Banquet
Satan banquets with his faithful followers, many of whom have removed their clothes since the meal - strictly non-vegetarian - is rather a messy affair

Men at a Stag Night dinner
A group of men at a Stag Night dinner -- the groom and his male friends celebrate on the eve of his wedding. Date: 1894

Farmyard animals eagerly await a meal served by a young farm worker. Artist: Berenice Butler Date: circa 1922

Advert for Alexander Clark breakfast dishes 1904
Single and double breakfast dishes, heated with boiling water. Date: 1904

Christmas beef and plum pudding
Christmas beef and a round, boiled plum pudding to eat with the meat. Date: C.1800

Chinese family eating with chopsticks. 19th century

The Man From Blankleys by F Anstey
Promotional postcard for The Man From Blankleys by F. Anstey. from his novel. First produced at the Prince of Wales Theatre, 25th April 1901. Fourteen are sitting around the dinner table

Menu for London epicures 1906
Photograph of some expensive dishes from different countries not ever been eaten or seen before, on rich peoples menu in London

You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw
Promotional postcard for You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw. First produced by the Stage Society at the Royalty Theatre, 26th November 1899

Harborne Industrial School, Birmingham - Dining Hall
Tables laid for a meal in the dining hall at the Harborne Industrial School, Birmingham Date: circa 1903

Mother and children on a jigsaw puzzle
Mother and children at a table on a jigsaw puzzle -- the pieces are square shaped. Date: circa 1890s

Three cherubs fighting on a New Year card
Three cherubs fighting and breaking things on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Family with Christmas pudding on a New Year card
Family with a large Christmas pudding and other nice things to eat and drink on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks Orphan Schools, Cheadle Hulme - dining hall laid out with a meal buns and bread and butter. Staff stand at the rear. Date: early 1900s

Boy and girl pulling cracker on a Christmas card
Boy and girl pulling a cracker on a Christmas and New Year card, watched by a white cat. Date: circa 1890s

Nun in party hat at Christmas lunch, Manchester
A nun wears a party hat as she tucks into Christmas lunch given to elderly people by a Manchester casino. 1983

WW2 poster, teacher and pupils on allotment
WW2 poster (For Freedom series before lettering is added), showing a teacher and her pupils on allotment with rhubarb leaves

Cartoon, Christmas preparations, WW1
Cartoon, Christmas preparations on the Western Front. French soldiers gather everything together for their Christmas feast, including a bird, some cheese, and some bottles of wine. Date: 1915

Meal on the beach, Hawaii, USA
Meal on the beach for 19 people, including Europeans, Hawaii, USA. Date: 1925

Gurkhas cooking a camp meal 1914
Gurkhas cooking a camp meal. A group of Gurkha soldiers prepare a meal in camp. They would soon be travelling to the Western Front in Europe to fight alongside the British Army. Date: 1914

Illustration of a Sealyham terrier puppy by Cecil Aldin
Illustration of a Sealyham terrier called Bunch, by Cecil Aldin. Seen here eating from a dish, watched by a friendly Irish terrier called Pat. Date: 1932

Hungry Peter the pig cooking a meal for his friends. Date: 1914

Dog slipping off Tabithas window sill
A dog, Rags, spying on Tabithas tea party, slips off Tabithas window sill when Forager, supporting him on his back, decides to sit down. Date: 1914

Hungry Peter dressing as the Fat Boy in Pickwick
Hungry Peter dressing for a fancy dress ball as the Fat Boy in Pickwick -- he is finding the breeches rather tight, but then that is the general idea. Date: 1914

Banquet in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA
Banquet scene in Mammoth Cave, in Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, USA. The underground dining room was able to seat 500 people. Date: 1915

A group of Japanese people eating a meal
A group of Japanese people sit and eat a meal. Date: 1932

A group of Japanese people enjoying a meal
A group of five Japanese people are cooking meat over charcoal for a meal. This method is known as Jenghiz Khan nabe and was introduced from Mongolia. Date: 1932

Caravanning scene with couple and dog. Choose your place preferably where a large fruit tree hangs over the wall. Date: 1932

Hungry Peter the pig drinking a toast in the soup, as everyone at the dinner party is teetotal! Date: 1914

Hungry Peter the pig putting sugar in the soup
Hungry Peter the pig accidentally putting castor sugar in the soup instead of pepper. Date: 1914

Samuel Baker, explorer in East Africa, with his wife Florence, near the Karuma Falls. The natives assume he is Spekes brother, because their beards are similar. Date: circa 1864

Baker, Speke and Grant, explorers in East Africa
Samuel White Baker, John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant, explorers in East Africa, enjoying a civilised meal together under an awning. Date: 1863

Liverpool Robins Christmas Dinner Guests
Some of the guests at a Robins Christmas Dinner, a meal provided each December for up to five thousand poor children of Liverpool from 1873 onwards. Date: circa 1910

St Vincents Boys Home, Hull - Dining Room
St Vincents Boys Home, Hull. Tables laid out for a meal

A Mere Matter of Form by Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
Distressing mistake of the cook recently released from a munition factory. A familys cook absent-mindedly shapes the pudding for that day into a shell, much to the shock and panic of her employers

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