Meat Collection (page 12)

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

Advertisement for refrigeration equipment for ships
Advertisement for the Dry Air Refrigerator or Freezing Machine, from the Haslam Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd of Derby, showing refrigeration equipment for ships. circa 1883

The SS Austral, a passenger vessel which took part in the early transportation by sea of refrigerated meat between Australia and Europe

Casablanca, Morocco - New Abattoir and livestock yards Date: circa 1910s

Butchers shop 1933
Slaughtered pigs on the platform of the lorry outside the butchers shop. Landskrona, 1933 Date: 1933

Stock Exchange Notes (1 / 4) - Fall of Coal
An allegory on the The Fall of the Coal Price - Stock Exchange Notes: " Coal Fell Unexpectedly" !! 1903

Calfs head for carving
Diagram showing how to carve a calfs head. Calfs head had many culinary uses in the Victorian kitchen, including a key ingredient in mock turtle soup

Chicago Stock Yards
Union stock yards, Chicago, handle 14+ million cattle, hogs, sheep and horses in 1914. Upton Sinclairs The Jungle describes the dreadful conditions. Date: 1916

Gammon & Pineapple
Gammon, ham, chips and peas, garnished with tomato. Date: 1980s

Butchers boy and bakers boy
A butchers boy and a bakers boy having a chat. first published 1879

Dogs Meat Seller
Before the era of Cesar and Pedigree Chum, dog-owners rely on the dogs meat man as he trundles his barrow through the streets. Date: early 19th century

The Guest who called the Foie Gras Potted Meat by H. M
Cartoon of a man who has made a social faux-pas at the dinner table. Date: 29th November 1929

Hamburger & Ketchup
A hamburger and ketchup - junk food at its finest! Date: 1979

French Pate
French pork and liver pate. Date: 1980

Roasting Deer on a Spit
Deer and ox roasting is often part of a celebration or custom, in various parts of Britain. Here deer carcasses are being roasted in the open air at Bournemouth, England. Date: 1950s

Ox-Roasting Ceremony
Ox roasting at Leeds, Yorkshire, England, an old custom which was carried on by students of Leeds University, the proceeds going to charity. Date: 1950s

Manipur butchers near Arras, France, WW1
Allied Manipur butchers (from Burma) at work preparing meat near Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 20 October 1917

Argentina - Berisso. Workers leaving the Swift refrigeration faciity or the preservation of chilled beef. Date: circa 1930s

Butcher prepares meat
A 15th century butcher prepares cuts of meat, including ribs and hooves. Date: 15th century

Beef cuts, 1857
Town and country methods of cutting up an ox. The head and hooves ar shown, as well as the carcass. Date: 1857

Couple cuddling during WW1
A couple cuddling a sofa during the First World War, with a picture of a saluting officer on the wall behind them -- no doubt her absent husband

Simpsons in the Strand, with Mr H Shelton
A postcard advertising Simpsons in the Strand, the famous London restaurant, depicting Mr H Shelton who has signed the card. Date: circa 1900s

Turtle, swallows nests and oxtail
Victorian cooking ingredients: turtle, swallows nests and oxtail. Date: 19th century

Dietary from Thame Workhouse, Oxfordshire
The dietary or menu plan adopted in 19836 by the Thame Union workhouse in Oxfordshire. It largely comprises bread, meat and gruel, with a cooked meat dinner two days per week. Date: 1836

Chile - Agricultural Labourers Camp
The customs of the agricultural labourers in Chile - a temporary camp where the men are spit-roasting meat and drinking Chilean wine. Date: circa 1910

Butcher factory
Butchers factory, Landskrona, Sweden, 1967. Date: 1967

Street trader selling meat in the 1880s

Gipsy carrying a plate of cooked meat
A gipsy carrying a plate of meat which has just been cooked, and is steaming hot

Butchers stall, East End of London
Women turning over scraps and shreds of beef and mutton at a butchers stall in the East End of London

Lion eating
A male lion chewing at a piece of meat

English Guernsey Cattle Society Exhibit
The English Guernsey Cattle Societys Exhibit at the London Dairy Show, 1934

Argentina - Unloading cattle
Cattle unloaded from a river barge Las Palmas no.13. The water is still deep as can be seen by the cattle who are submerged up to their heads and the solitary gaucho on his horse

Argentina - Rosario Estancia
The Rosario Estancia (Cattle Ranch) at La Cumbre in Argentina. Set at an altitude of 1300 metres! To see the buildings as they look today visit - http

Mont Saint Michel, France - Sheep Grazing on salt meadows
Sheep grazing on the salt meadows around Mont Saint Michel (Les Pres Sales) and accordingly the meat of the lambs/sheep has a wonderful flavour to it

Railway Cart Overturned - London Strike
A Railway Cart, overturned outside Paddington Station whilst conveying goods of the Keevil Ham Company to their warehouse, during a Strike in London, August 10th, 1911

A selection of kitchen sundries
A selection of kitchen equipment including kettles, flour sifters, towel airers, vegetable racks and meat safes

California Alligator Farm - Los Angeles
Lunchtime at a California Alligator Farm, Los Angeles. A whole host of Alligators tuck into what appears to be a rather small quantity of meat! Two are so excited they have rolled over

Turkish Butcher skinning a sheep
A Turkish butcher skinning a sheep in Constantinople

Macedonian Butcher at work
A Macedonian butcher cuts up a sheep

Boys Club, hungry boy 1934
A very hungry boy from a Boys Club sits and eats away at meat from a bone, much to the enjoyment of his friends

Manchester Ship Canal - Butchered carcases awaiting distribu
A warehouse alongside the Manchester Ship Canal with rank upon rank of hanging beef caracasses awaiting transportation by train to London

Manchester Ship Canal - Beef Carcasses for London
A chalk scrawl on the wagon door records that 1000 beef carcasses were transported in these wagons from the offload on the Manchester Ship Canal down to final destination of Smithfield Market, London

Ypres in ruins, 1915
An aerial view of Ypres in August 1915. In the centre is all that remains of the Cloth Hall. Beyond are the ruins of the Cathedral of St. Martin

Meat in storage, World War I
Meat in storage in the London docks on the runway from the ship during World War I

Morocco - With the Butcher - Uncertainty
At the Butchers Stall at a Moroccan Market. The customer is unsure which of the finest choice cuts available to buy

Cattle in London, 1877
Engraving showing a herd of cattle passing through the streets of the city of London, 1877. These animals were probably being driven towards the citys meat and livestock market, Smithfield

A Years Food for the Animals of London Zoo, 1913
Illustration showing the sum total of food required to feed the animals of the Zoological Societys Gardens (London Zoo) in 1913

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