Meals Collection

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

Good Egg by William Heath Robinson
Straight from the Hen! The Fresh-Egger, a handsome apparatus for ensuring the new-laidness of eggs for the breakfast-table. A typically convoluted invention from the mind of William Heath Robinson

Advert for the Ministry of Food 1940
The weeks food facts No. 6. If you eat more than you need, you are wasting food as surely as if you had thrown it away. So eat what you need, but no more. Buy wisely and cater strictly

Still Life with Peaches and Pears Date: 1890

NUPE and GMBATU school meals campaign, Croydon
NUPE and GMBATU representatives at a press conference to launch a Save our school meals campaign in the London Borough of Croydon, 29 June 1983. Date: 1983

Gunfight over Dinner Date: 1954

Outbreak of WWII men of Royal Artillery eating 1939
Men of a battalion of the Royal Artillery have a meal beside of the guns, during training. Date: 1939

Japanese people sitting on the floor eating their meal using small bowls and chopsticks. Date: 1864

WWII - the man who eats grass, Mr J. R. B. Branson
Mr J. R. B. Branson, who advocated a diet of grass to counter food shortages during the Second World War. The Bystander magazine ran a double page spread on him

Divisions at meals, Training Ship Exmouth, early 1900s

WW2, Homes For Evacuated Children
This illustration shows a mother providing meals and a place to live for poor children who have been rendered homeless by WW2 raids. Date: circa 1941

Grenville Hotel, 112 East Street, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1910s

Salvation Army serving school meals, Lincolnshire
Salvation Army serving soup and snacks to schoolchildren in Crowland, Lincolnshire, 28 January 1981. The children's school dinners had been discontinued due to government cuts. Date: 1981

People School Schools 1981 1980s 80s Eighties
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Tokyo postman delivering letters to the rubble
Laden with letters from anxious enquiries from relatives. A Japanese postman amongst the ruins of where the house were once situated

Tokyo earthquake 1923
A railway shelter for the night with men, women and children huddled together in a carriage on a siding at Numadzu Station after the catastrophic earthquake that hit Tokyo

Sermon Lane Mission, Islington 1903
Distribution of free meals to the sandwichmen and unemployed at the Sermon Lane Mission, in Liverpool Road, London, during the Cattle Show. Date: 1903

Comic postcard, Sea sickness in a rowing boat Date: 20th century

Advertisement for Walls Sausages depicting a young, married couple about to be served some delicious bangers for dinner by their maid. Date: c.1924

Advert for Alexander Clark, hot plate & soup tureen 1912
Welbeck plated pattern hoat plate, soup tureen and syphon stand. 1912

Advert for Alexander Clark, hot plate 1912
Luxury patent hot plate. 1912

During the severe winter weather the Great Arthur Street Mission of Golden Lane were keeping starving people of the East-End of London feed. Men seated on long benches, being served warm soup

Townsfolk Carousing in Woods Date: 1910

Money Box in Three Color Eartenware Date: 800

Silver and Gold Teacup Date: 1880

Working Vineyard Date: 1878

Wine Connoisseurs Date: 1850

Wine Tasting

Marzipan Fruits and Veg Date: 1935

Edible Centerpieces Date: 1935

Macaroon Folly Creation Date: 1935

Pulled-Sugar Flowers Date: 1935

Piped Flower Samples Date: 1935

Narcissus Cake Date: 1935

Bird and Roses Cake Date: 1935

Birds Nest and Rose Cake Date: 1935

Girl with Bouquet Cake Date: 1935

Rose Basket Cake Date: 1935

Easter Bunny Cake Date: 1935

Tulip and Scrolls Cake Date: 1935

Twelve Cake Wedges Date: 1935

Wheel of Tart Slices Date: 1935

Assorted Bonbons Date: 1935

Ice Cream Parfaits Date: 1935

Ice Cream Bombes Date: 1935

Ice Cream Desserts Date: 1935

Chocolate Basket and Vase Date: 1935

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