Oven Collection

Cover for Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / Ranges
A cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Date: circa 1927

Advert for the Radiation New World Gas Cooker 1933
Radiation porcelain enamelled New World Gas Cookers, the only gas cookers with regulo control. Ask to see the unrivalled Radiation New World Gas cooker at your gas showrooms

Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / Ranges
A cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Home made with Triplex! Date: circa 1920s

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers 1938
Providing ample accommodation for all the food and untensils required in cooking for a family of 6 to 8

KETTLE CAT
A ginger cat about to be boiled in a kettle on the kitchen hob!

Adobe House - Mexico - Bake Ovens and Mules
A rather smart Georgian style sash window rather remarkably set into the wall of an Mexican Adobe mud brick house with a pair of bake ovens (and a pair of mules) in front. Date: circa 1910s

Cover design, Over 120 Ways of Using Bread for tasty and delightful dishes. Showing a woman in her kitchen, enjoying some of the results of her baking. Date: circa 1940s

WWI - Mobile German Field Bakery - Western Front Date: circa 1916

Glenwood Cooker Advert
Gas or coal does its best work in this remarkable Glenwood range - five burners for gas and four covers for coal... the Thermolator automatically controls the oven heat

Hereford Industrial School Bakery
A pile of loaves fresh from the oven baked by the boys at the Hereford Industrial School, Date: 1899

National Childrens Home, Harpenden - Bakery
Boys at work in the bakery at the National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden. Bread is coming out of the oven and a trolley is stacked with loaves. Date: Date unknown

Baking a Pie
The baker places a pie in his oven, using a long-handled appliance which doubtless has its own name, but I don t know it

Bakers Shop / Loaves
A scene in a bakery, with the preparation and baking of standard size loaves of white bread

Cook, 16th century. Engraving
The cook. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Cultivation of grain for use of the peasants, and making barley and oat bread. 19th century facsimile after a woodcut from an edition of Virgil's works published in Lyon in 1517

Bread making, 16th century. Engraving
Bread making. Engraving after a miniature in a calendar published in a 16th century book of hours. Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix

Brazier hammering a brass pan in a workshop
Brazier in apron and cap hammering a brass pan with a mallet in a workshop. The shop has a worktable and oven, kettle, pot and spoon and tools

Chinese porcelain making and other trades, Qing dynasty
Chinese trades, Qing dynasty, 1800s

The Victorian kitchen at Brodsworth Hall, Brodsworth, Doncaster, England. Photographed in 1989 with full permission of then owners Ron and Pam Williams Date: 1989

Bottle oven Stoke
A man walks past a redundant pottery with its chimney and bottle oven in The Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England Date: 1987

Farmers in old pub. Herefordshire
Three mature male farmers sit in the parlour bar of The Carpenters Arms, Walterstone, Herefordshire, and enjoy a chat and a pint together Date: circa 1975

The Oven or Kiln, Chepy Brickworks, Marne department, France
The Oven or Kiln, Chepy Brickworks (Briqueterie) - Marne department in north-eastern France. Date: circa 1907

Woman Baking - Illustration of a housewife taking a pie from the oven. Date: 1928

Advert, Pyotts Marie Biscuits that Children Love! Date: 1937

Filling saggers with glazed ware, Alfred Meakin
Filling saggers with glazed ware before re-firing in Glost oven Date: 1913

Finishing pottery previous to firing, Alfred Meakin
Finishing pottery previous to firing in Bisque oven Date: 1913

Filling saggers with clay ware, Alfred Meakin
Filling saggers with clay ware and placing in position in the Bisque oven Date: 1913

Dipping the ware in glaze, Alfred Meakin
Dipping the ware in glaze before re-firing in Glost oven Date: 1913

Brownies in the Bakery Date: 1910

Advert for Wellstood cooking ranges, from Smith and Wellstood. Date: 1932

Improved gas cooking and heating range. Date: 1862

Christmas-Eve dinner time in the East End club-house, where everyone brought their own dinner to cook themselves, over the community oven with one frying-pan

W. V. S. Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven
A W.V.S. (Womens Voluntary Service) Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven out of bricks, a piece of metal plate and a broken piece of drainpipe. Date: circa 1941

Supper Dishes cooked in the New World Gas Cooker
Supper Dishes cooked in the New World Regulo-Controlled Gas Cooker. 1920s

Advert, Gas Cooking Stove, Kingston-upon-Thames Gas Company, Thames Street, Surrey. 1902

Chinese potters making and firing porcelain cups and plates
Chinese potter making a porcelain cup on a potters wheel driven by a laborer, while another worker arranges cups on a tray 1, and a potter firing porcelain plates in an open oven 2

Interior of a traditional Russian loghouse or Izba, 18th century. Woman tending chickens in the living room, and a large brick oven in the rear

Chinese pottery firing, Qing Dynasty
Chinese pottery making: potter firing a porcelain plate in a furnace to fix the glaze on it, and a potter firing porcelain plates over an open oven

Advert, Dobbie, Forbes & Co, Ironfounders, Scotland
Advert for Dobbie, Forbes & Co, Ironfounders and American Stove Manufacturers, Larbert, Scotland. 1905

Bake-house in a Cornish Village by Adrian Stokes
A bake-house in a Cornish village. Loaves are carefully weighed before the baker shovels them into the oven. Date: 1888

Fletchers Gas Cooking Ranges. 19th century

Baker at work. circa 1800

Kilns of Royal Porcelain Works, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kilns of the Royal Porcelain Works, Copenhagen, Denmark, dating back to the 18th century. Date: 1922

Advert, Ventilating Kitchener Close Range Oven
Advert, Benham & Sons, Wigmore Street, London - Ventilating Kitchener, Close Range Oven with Open Chimney. circa 1890

Taking a pie from the oven
Woman taking baked pie from oven. Illustration from Delineator magazine 1928. Artist anon. Date: 1928

Paper bag design, The Master Baker, 100 Years, service & quality from your local baker. 20th century

Young woman cooking in a kitchen Date: circa 1990s

Porcelain manufacturers 1843
Workers carefully place seggars or saggars for firing in the biscuit kiln at the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester. 1843

Advert, Formica Kitchen, Christmas 1953. 1953

Typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix, WW1
A typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix. Here I took my cafe au lait each morning before going down line

Barbecuing on a Spit Date: 1954

Woman Broils Steak Date: 1954

Thanksgiving Date: 1941

Bakers and Bread Loaves Date: 1948

Custom Gas Range Date: 1948

Preview of Dinner

ROAST PARSNIPS
Carefully buttering up large parsnip slices and adding salt and pepper before roasting them in the oven. Date: 1930s

HOUSEWIFE IN KITCHEN
A happy housewife cracks eggs in her stylish new fitted kitchen, with built-in cooker and oven - wow! Date: 1960s

MAKING GLOBES 1930S
Making globes: The girl is pasting newspaper over a globe shape. The globe is then baked in an oven until hard. The boy is preparing a half globe for joining. Date: 1930s

ROLLANDS BAKERS OVEN
A section view of Rollands bakers oven. Date: circa 1874

BAKING OUTSIDE
Baking day in a Warwickshire village (England); the oven is outdoor, not in the kitchen Date: 1872

BAKING DAY OUTDOORS 1872
Baking day in a Warwickshire village (England); the oven is outdoor, not in the kitchen Date: 1872

Pottery processes
Various pottery proceses : 1. The Thrower 2. The Turner 3. The Biscuit Oven 4. Printing 5. Ornamenting. Date: 19th Century

Baker Juan Olives bakes bread in olive wood burning oven
Baker Juan Olives, third generation of bakers to use a traditional olive wood burning stove to bake bread and crespells (a traditional Spanish sweet cake), pictured

Bottle oven repair, Potteries
A pipe-smoking workman at work high on scaffolding on a bottle oven at the Glastone Pottery, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. First published The Times Date: 1989

Children and swans Stoke
Three children feed a white swan on a pond in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. In the background is a Potteries bottle oven and a factory chimney Date: 1987

Patent Triplex Grate F Pattern with close-fitting mantel Best Grey Porcelain Enamelled finish Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate A Pattern with Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

The Super Chattanette Combination Grate. Catalogue for Nicholls and Clarke Ltd. London. Manufacturers and Merchants of Building Materials. Date: circa 1920s

Bakers with bread on a Christmas card -- He knows which side his bread is buttered. Date: circa 1890s

Keepers of Longships Lighthouse, off Lands End, Cornwall
Three keepers of Longships Lighthouse, off Lands End, Cornwall, in the kitchen area, preparing for their Christmas dinner. Date: circa 1970s

Pompeii. Pistrinum belonged N. Popidius Priscus
Pistrinum. Oven for bread. Belonged to N. Popidius Priscus in the Vicolo Storto. Old-mill for grain and the fireplace of the oven for bread. Pompeii. Italy

Radiator Heating from the Triplex Grate / Range, showing the passage of hot water heating throughout a house from boiler to tank and radiators. Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate F Pattern with Best Black Porcelain Enamelled finish Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grates Pattern fitted with G Mantel with Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate - Double Oven C pattern with Black Porcelain Enamelled Finish Date: circa 1920s

The Meridian Combination Grate. Catalogue for Nicholls and Clarke Ltd. London. Manufacturers and Merchants of Building Materials. Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate C Pattern with Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate D Pattern with Grey Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate E Pattern with Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

Suffragette Voting Cake in Oven. Mrs. Jones (Who represents Every Woman) goes to vote but suddenly remembers she has left a cake in the oven. Typical empty headed woman. Date: circa 1909

Edwards Clements, Jeakes and Company
An advertisment for Edwards Clements, Jeakes and Company, cooking, laundry and heat engineers. Their products are ideal for use in institutions, such as hospitals, workhouses, asylums and infirmaries

Kitchens of Baden Powell House, London
View of the modern kitchens at Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: 10 July 1961

Shea butter production - Senegal
Shea butter preparation, baking shea tree nuts - pounding and grinding, Senegal, West Africa

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