Meals Collection (page 5)

Auxiliary London firewomen under catering instruction
London regular and AFS firefighters spent many hours, sometimes days, at incidents during the Blitz, and they needed refreshments

Imperial Airways Poster, Reliability, Comfort. Showing details of the equipment of the most luxurious air liners in the world (Heracles Class), with pictograms of features on a yellow background. 1934

Fish & vegetable meals will save wheat, meat & fats for our soldiers and allies. Poster shows an arrangement of fish and vegetables. Date between 1914 and 1918

Start the day right with a good breakfast Plan your luncheon wisely : Dinner should balance your days meals. Poster encouraging healthy eating habits. Date between 1941 and 1943

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

Church Army Banquet at the Marylebone Baths
Nearly 500 poor people who enjoyed Christmas fayre at the Marylebone Baths in London provided by the Church Army at an event attended by the Duke and Duchess of Fife. Date: 1904

Illustration with music, Grace Before Meals, showing three little girls saying a prayer. first published 1881

National Amusement - The Bus Kitchen 1918
If the ministry of food carries out its latest scheme, there should be plenty of excitement in getting ones dinner from the travelling food kichens

When national kichens come in bulk! 1918
National Kitchens opened in the First World War to help poor people get hot food. Date: 1918

Arnhem prisoners launch mobile food restaurant
Three ex-officers of the Parachute Regiment, captured at Arnhem, having sunk their savings into a new idea in catering conceived in a German POW camp

Unicorn Restaurant, Festival of Britain site, London
View of the outdoor Unicorn Restaurant or Cafe, with its suspended umbrellas and angled flagpoles, part of the Festival of Britain site, South Bank, London

Poor school meal
Poor children are served free meal at the refectory of Albano school, Landskrona, 1906. Date: 1906

Hospital Meals
The Senior Nurse gets the plates ready whilst the junior nurses begin to dish up a meal from metal tureens at Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup, Kent, England. Date: 1960s

Convicts delivering meals to prison cells
Uniformed warders supervise convicts delivering food cans and bread to the cells at an unnamed London prison

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

Lewisham Hospital kitchens, south east London
Uniformed catering staff prepare meals in the kitchens of Lewisham Hospital in south east London. A cook at the right is making up plates of salad. Large metal boxes carry the names of hospital wards

Salvation Army Food Depot, London
Men queuing at one of the food depots set up in London by the Salvation Army in the 1890s. The depots provided low cost food and meals for down and outs

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

The Kitchen of the Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, Japan
The large basement kitchen of the Fujiya Hotel, Miyanoshita, Japan. A classical resort hotel, the Fujiya was opened in 1878

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

King and Queen at a Communal Centre during the war
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth pictured visiting a communal centre established in South London during the Blitz to provide meals for people who had been bombed out of their homes by German air

An 18th Century Kitchen by Pauline Baynes
A galaxy of eighteenth century food and a kitchen scene showing food preparation. From the top is a Stargazey pie, then a baked ham stuffed with apricots, fried apple pasties

Various Titanic items
Various items from RMS Titanic, namely receipts for meals and typing, a headed letter card, a restaurant card, and a box of matches

Receipt and ticket from the Titanic
A receipt for typing charges, a rebate for meals, and a Turkish Bath ticket stub from the ill-fated passenger liner Titanic

Chef Ready Meals
Advertisement for O-Kay Chef Ready Meals. Keep a tin in your rucksack and leave your food problems behind!

The Wolf & the Mastiff
THE WOLF AND THE MASTIFF A hungry wolf asks a dog how he stays so well-fed; the dog says obedience to his master is enough; the wolf values his freedom over easy meals

A kitchen in a motor car
An eight horse-power car used to transport piping hot meals from a well-known Parisian restaurant to people in their homes

Potatoes for Supper
Due to rationing, wartime meals could be rather predictable. This boys grandmother is dishing up boiled potatoes for supper - again

Cooking & Baking 1940S
The grandmother of the house struggles to make ends meet and cooks the best meals she can with the rations she has. Her daughter rolls out pastry for baking with a rolling pin

Grocery Shop Rations
A shopkeeper measures out a weeks rations on his weighing scales. During World War Two, planning a familys meals often depended upon what an individual shop had in stock

Picnicking at Home
A PIC-NIC IN THE DRAWING ROOM A satire on the growing habit of snacking instead of sitting round the table at formal meals

Andaman Island Convicts
Prisoners take their meals on the beach in the Andaman Islands

School dinner, primary school in Wales
Primary school pupils in Wales having their school dinner

Lunchtime at Nursery
Small children being taught to eat correctly at a North London nursery school. During the fine weather, meals are taken outside

Caligula & Horse / V Adam
GAIUS CAESAR CALIGULA Roman emperor with his horse, Incitatus, who shared meals at his table, and whom he would have made consul if the animal had lived long enough

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