Meals Collection (page 3)

Blank menu card in the shape of a plate. Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Thermos flasks WW1
Jolly advertisement for Thermos Flasks, an essential accessory to deal with trench life during the First World War. Thermos allows plenty of hot water for shaving

Christmas Feasting in reign of Henry VIII
A Christmas banquet in the 16th century during the reign of King Henry VIII. The servers carry huge napkins over their shoulders and are marshalled in by the deputy steward

Man filling a bucket at a water pump
A man filling a bucket at a water pump, outside an inn called The Plume of Feathers, recommended by the Automobile Association, serving lunches and teas as well as draught cider

RMS Olympic invitation, restaurant card
An invitation, bearing the name of Mr George F Morrell of The Graphic, for a Channel trip on the White Star Line cruise ship, the RMS Olympic

Homeless women in an East End doss house
This is the basement of a doss house for women in Duval Street, in the East End. A bed costs sixpence a night and lodgers provide their own meals

A arabic feast, with couscous, Algeria
Many Arabic men and children gather around to feast on couscous out of a large tajine. Date: 1910

YMCA Hut - High Street Kensington, London. Almost every available square foot of greenery in central London was comandeered for war purposes, often in some of the most prestigious locations

Leaflet, Imperial Airways, Facts About Air Travel. 20th century

Man in a cap on a place card
Man in a cap, smoking a pipe, on a place card. Date: circa 1890s

Smiling man in a hat on a place card
Smiling man with a red nose on a place card. Date: circa 1890s

Man in a top hat on a place card
Haughty-looking man in a top hat on a place card. Date: circa 1890s

Woman in exotic costume on a place card. Date: circa 1920s

Sleeping crescent moon and two stars on a place card. Date: circa 1890s

Figure in exotic costume on a place card. Date: circa 1920s

Two stars and a sun on a place card. Date: circa 1890s

Sun smoking a pipe on a place card. Date: circa 1890s

Red devil on a place card -- Who The... Sits Here? Date: circa 1890s

Canadian Pacific Third Class Dining Room
Canadian Pacific Ocean and Rail Services ensure through connections -- a Third Class Dining Room. Date: circa 1930s

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

Chafing dish 1897
Using a chafing dish at the table, to make sure that the food is good and hot when it is served Date: 1897

Electrical chafing dish 1912
Chafing-dish stand on four legs in aluminium, used for table cookery. 1912

Chafing dishes 1899
Nickel plated chafing dish, useful for preparing hot foods for super luncheon, tea ect. Cooked foods could be made hot very quickly, the upper pan only used for cooking chops, omelets sweetbreads

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

Advert for Turners Restaurant, Ciudad Victoria, Mexico
Advertisement for Turners Restaurant in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, offering American food, particularly chicken dinners. Date: circa 1930s

Communal Kitchens, WWI by Will Owen
Cartoon by Will Owen, a humorous comment on the rise of the communal kitchen, introduced during the First World War as a way of providing war workers and the poor with nourishing meals

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, stocking out
Housekeeping aboard the liner. The huge supply for the Queen Marys stay at port between voyages. To ensure that fresh supplies were always available, triplicate stocks of linen were ordered

Spanish family sitting at the table at mealtime. 1950s-1960s

WW1 Oxo advertisement
Advertisement for Oxo suggesting Oxo and potato cakes as a delicious (and economical) luncheon during the First World War. Date: 1918

Typical menu at a communal kitchen, WW1
A blackboard showing a typical menu at a communal kitchen in 1918. Communal and National Kitchens were established to help combat food shortages during the First World War by catering in bulk

Munitions workers waiting for the tea hooter, WW1
Women munitions workers outside the National Control Canteen, run by female volunteers, waiting for the tea hooter to sound

Tea Time in Dining Hall of National Control Canteen, WW1
Female munitions workers in the dining hall of the National Control Canteen, run by voluntary lady workers to provide cheap, nutritious meals for employees. Date: 1916

Daily rations for enemy prisoners of war in England, WW1
A table displaying the rations given to enemy prisoners of war interned in England during the First World War. The picture was taken at a POW camp in Leigh, Lancashire and shows 1 1/2 lb of bred

Rationing of Food, February 1918, WW1
Page from The Sphere reporting on the introduction of food rationing of meat and butter in London and Home Counties on 25 February 1918

Christmas Day with the Fleet, sailors enjoy Xmas dinner, WW1
Sailors as guests of Lady Beatty (wife of Admiral Beatty) enjoying a Christmas dinner " somewhere in Scotland." The wives of officers of the Grand Fleet helped to make the dinner a success

British troops in church billets in Flanders, WW1
Just back from the trenches, British troops settle down in church billets during a service after a stretch of work in the first line on the Western Front

Restaurant restrictions during WW1
Article from The Sphere demonstrating the new wartime lunch and dinner restrictions put in place in restaurants and hotels

Oxo advertisement with trench scene, WW1
Advertisement for Oxo, for men at the Front and in training, with an excellent accompanying picture illustrating the grim conditions borne by soldiers in the trenches

The Little Theatre as a soldiers clubhouse, WW1
A page from The Sphere, reporting on how the Little Theatre, in the Haymarket, London (now the Theatre Royal, Haymarket) temporarily converted to become a soldiers clubhouse during the First World

WRAF Mess Hut at Cranwell, WW1
Scene inside the WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) Mess Hut at Cranwell, probably during the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service Central Training Establishment Cranwell was commissioned on 1

The first National Kitchen, WW1
The first National Kitchen in Britain, opened on 21 May 1917 by Queen Mary. The National Kitchens were opened during the First World War to provide one solution to food shortages

First mobile kitchen donation, WW2
The Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, receiving the keys to the first mobile kitchen from Lord Bennett (Richard Bedford Bennett)

AFS firefighters being served from mobile kitchen, WW2
AFS firefighters being served hot meals from a mobile kitchen presented by the Junior Red Cross of Saskatchewan, Canada. Date: 1940s

NFS mobile kitchen in operation, WW2
An NFS (London Region No 5) mobile kitchen in operation, handing out meals to women in uniform. The vehicle was donated by the Canadian Red Cross. Date: 1940s

National Kitchens, tram kitchen in Halifax, WW1
A clever development of the National Kitchens, devised during the First World War to provide cheap, nutritious and economically produced meals for war workers and poorer classes

National / Communal Kitchens, WW1
A cartoon showing the public feeling towards the communal kitchens that were to be set up during WW1. Its aim was to provide meals to the lower classes for a very small price

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