Meat Collection (page 2)

Thessaloniki, Greece - Tripe Kebab Seller Date: circa 1916

Victory is a question of stamina - Send - the wheat, meat, fats, sugar - The fuel for fighters United States Food Administration. Poster showing soldiers running with bayonets. Date 1917

Queen Victorias procession in Smithfield
The Royal procession of Queen Victoria in Smithfield, passing the Metropolitan Meat Market. The Queens visit to the City of London was for the purpose of opening the new bridge over the Thames at

Ox roasting at Stratford-upon-Avon Mop Fair
Scene showing an ox being roasted at the Stratford upon Avon annual Mop Fair, Warwickshire. Farm workers, labourers, servants and some craftsmen would work for their employer from October to October

Chicago Stockyards 1
Butchers in the Chicago stockyards at work on beef carcases, exposed by Upton Sinclair in his 1905 novel The Jungle

Smithfield Market 1843
A scene in Smithfield Market with traders examining and discussing huge cattle

Chicago Stockyards
Cattle awaiting slaughter in the Union Stock Yards, Chicago - note the boards for Armour and Swift

Advert / Liebig Beef Card
Liebigs Extract of Beef: the finest meat flavouring stock

Cookery Magazine 1917
A wartime issue of this popular cookery magazine - Splendid Flour Substitute recipes, Making the meat go round, the sugar shortage, How to save bread

Advertisement for City Meat Dog Cakes
An advertisement for Walker Harrison and Garthwaites City Meat Dog Cakes - the genuine and original. A fierce British bulldog stands on top, guarding his food

Roast turkey on a plate on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Advertisement for Eastmans butchers -- temptation for a confirmed vegetarian! Date: early 20th century

Racing Illustrated - Putting on the Stakes A jolly French Chef working in a large restaurant kitchen puts an order of beef steaks under the grill. One could say this card was medium rare

Dog and Dogs Meat Man
The dog s-meat man is confronted by a demanding client ! Date: 1835

Beef Carcasees
Butchers removing intestines from cattle carcasses, part of the Argentinian meat (beef) production process. Date: 1930s

Chicago Stockyards 9
Two-thirds of the 8 million pigs that enter the Chicago stockyards are destined for pork joints : the rest are used to make sausages. England is a major client

Chicago Stockyards 8
Sheep hang by their rear legs as they pass towards the attentions of the butchers at the Chicago stockyards

The First Vegetarian
Surrounded by carnivores on every side, the first vegetarian decides that a meat-free life might be the way forward

Butcher & Carcasses
A butcher cuts large meat carcasses in half

Jolly Plump Cook 1640
A jolly, plump cook (surrounded by poultry and other meats) proudly holds up a freshly made pie, decorated with a feather

Various Cuts of Beef
Beef cuts of poor and inferior quality

Inspecting Carcasses
Local Government inspectors examining the carcasses of pigs

School for Butlers
Trainee butlers take notes as their teacher points to a blackboard diagram, explaining the correct way to carve lamb

Various Cuts of a Sheep
Diagram of a sheep showing the various cuts

Raw Sausages on a Plate
Uncooked sausages on a plate

Tariff Reform Needed
How can the poor British agriculturist compete with foreign produce - German and American shops - the Chicago Meat Trust ? The answer is TARIFF REFORM, of course !

Avro 695 Lincolnian G-ALPF
The sole UK registered Avro 695 Lincolnian G-ALPF (ex RAF Lincoln B.2 RE290)parked at Southend prior to being scrapped in 1952. Converted by Airflight Ltd

A roast pig on a spit, West Country. Date: circa 1960s

Advert, Haywards Military Pickle, the great digestive. 1937

Bovril and Pemmican products, WW2
Bovril and Pemmican products, together with oatmeal, meat and tea, supplied in ration packs during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Lambert Simnel working in the Royal Kitchens
Lambert Simnel (circa 1477circa 1525) - pretender to the throne of England. His claim to be Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, in 1487 threatened the newly-established reign of King Henry VII

FROZEN FOOD SHOP / 1970S
People with trolleys lift the lids and peer into the chest freezers trying to decide which foods to choose. There is a good selection including Kosher meat and poultry. Date: early 1970s

Armour Meat Refrigeration Plant - Berisso, nr Buenos Aires
Berisso near Buenos Aires, Argentina - enormous cold meat plant of the American Armour company, who specialised in refrigeration of meat for export and transportation purposes. Photographed at night

Butchers Boy. Date: circa 1920s

Victorian Butcher's Shop Date: 19th century

Smithfield Meat Market, London, Victorian period

Meat safe - larder Date: circa 1950

Avro Lincolnian Freighter ZP-CBR-97 (msn, ex B.2 RE376), at Tollerton airfield, near Nottingham. One of three Lincoln B.2s converted to Lincolnian standard with large pannier freight holds

The Old Woman, Cats Meat Street Seller Date: early 19th century

Bovril Poster
A poster design advertising Bovril, a thick meat extract. The image portrays a young woman, sat at her writing desk by the window, compiling a list, with a quote, I must not forget the Bovril

The Sapling
A painting of a military man, brandishing a meat cleaver, while kneeling beside a small, elegant tree sapling. He is looking over his shoulder with a discontented look on his face. Date: circa 1918

Scenes of Life in Abyssinia, 1885
Various depictions of rural life in Abyssinia (now known as Ethiopia). We see a trial, a family dinner, drinking mead, and a Broundo - raw meat feast

Mrs Block the Butcher's Wife

Mr Block the Butcher

Farewell Dinner Menu, Cunard liner, RMS Queen Mary
Farewell Dinner Menu, 27 April 1953, Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary Date: 1953

Farewell Dinner Menu, Cunard liner RMS Mauretania
Farewell Dinner Menu, 31 July 1953, Cunard liner RMS Mauretania Date: 1953

Dinner Menu, Cunard liner, RMS Mauretania
Dinner Menu, Cunard liner RMS Mauretania, 30 July 1953 - at this time the ship was operating between Southampton and New York. Date: 1953

Front cover, Daily Graphic, General Strike Emergency Edition - ninth day of the strike. Date: 1926

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