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Workman with spadeA middle-aged workman standing in a yard with a large spade
Sale of Roast Chestnuts on StreetPipe-smoking man selling roast chestnuts to female customer on street Date: 1930s
Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers 1939Advert for Main cabinet gas cooker Date: 1939
Japan - A Japanese Cook. Date: circa 1910s
Louvencourt (Somme), France - Rue du Four (Kiln/Bakehouse/Oven Road). Date: circa 1907
Native Furnace - near to Bamako, Mali, West Africa. Date: circa 1909
Fireplace at Wagon and Horses pub, SaltergateBeautiful photograph of a magnificent working fireplace at the Wagon and Horses pub, Saltergate, North Yorkshire. A batch of scones has just been baked in the oven
Baker. 15th century. Fresco. ITALY. Issogne. Issogne Castle
Kitchen of the St. Martins Charterhouse (Certosa di San Martino). 17th c. Painting. ITALY. Naples. San Martino National Museum
Advert for the Radiation New World Gas Cooker 1938Are you a slave to your cooker ? The new world 45/48 gas cookers with exclusive regulo control. Power burners to give more concentrated heat
Advert for electric cookers by Belling 1931Happy ladies ! Belling has made electric cooking cheap. 1. New visible heat boiling-griller and fastest in the world. 2. Temset automatic oven control. 3. All gleaming white mottled enamel finish
Fish FilletsPreparing fish fillets, rolling them in flour, for baking in the oven. Date: early 1930s
LCC-LFB - Safety in the home, fire prevention campaignA photograph from the Brigades fire prevention campaign. The hazards of drying cloths and teatowels over a lit gas cooker are highlighted, showing how this could lead to fires
NFS sub-station with external baking oven in yard, WW2NFS cooks using a brick-built baking oven in the yard of a sub-station
NFS sub-station with baking oven in yard, WW2A National Fire Service sub-station with an external baking oven in yard
The museum, room from the Seidenhofe, with oven, Zurich, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers with hot plate 1938Heres something New! The main cooker is fitted with the " P.R" hot plate closet in lieu of usual plate rack, and thus provides an enclosed space in which food or plates
Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers with no stoopingCooking without stooping. In kitchens where there is more than the usual space available, or where it is desirable to untilize an open-range setting setting the Maintop gas cooker provides a
ATS - using a brick field oven in training, 1939Female ATS workers in training, learning to cook using field equipment in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939
Senegal - Food PreparationPreparation of butter and the cooking and grinding of nuts in a Senegalese village Date: circa 1910s
Gasworks furnaceThe gasworks of Landskrona 1910. Date: 1910
Camel CaravanA camel caravan in Oman - only in the heart of the Arabian Gulf do the caravan bells still sound regularly. The huge, noble camels stride in peace among oven-hot rocks. Date: 1930s
Advert for Esse cookersIn the first place The Esse looks makes a contented cook.... One... her cooking is better than ever before. Two.... no smoke, fumes, soot, grime, blackleading. Three... clean kitchen. ect 1937
Stove 1900Wood stove, manufactured by Landskrona Foundry, 1900 Date: 1900
Advert for Esse cookers 1938From beginning to end of every day, a happier cook in every way! From a cheerful beginning in a warm kitchen to a happy ending in front of the fire
Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookersOne of the Main models will meet your needs! Advertisement for Main cookers for smaller kitchens. 1939
Fish Cookery ClassLadies in fur coats watching a cookery class, possibly for television, where the cook is demonstrating the art of oven fried fish! Date: 1960s
Freshly Baked LoavesA housewife takes her two freshly home baked loaves, one white and one wholemeal. from a hot oven. Date: 1940s
Cleaning Kitchen FloorAn ingenious housewife saves her back by cleaning her kitchen floor with a cloth and a sweeping brush. Date: 1940s
She made them some brothThere was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children... She made them some broth -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme, showing the old woman in her kitchen
Redring advertisement, c. 1955Advertisement for Redring Metrovick Boiling Plates manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company of Old Trafford, Manchester, showing a jubilant housewife delighted with her new cooker
Female BlacksmithA German woman blacksmith heating her irons in the furnace. Date: early 1930s
Advert for the Radiation New World Gas CookerRadiation porcelain enamelled New World Gas Cooker. Date: 1933
Interior of kitchen, Strangeways Prison, ManchesterThe interior of a prison kitchen, believed to be at Strangeways Prison, Manchester. The room is filled with assorted boilers, coppers, ovens and cooking hobs. Much of the cooking was done using steam
A Jersey KitchenA Jersey cottage kitchen, complete with copper pans on the fireplace range, a well-stocker dresser and curtained mantlepiece
Cooking street food - Tunis, TunisiaCooking and selling street food in Tunis, Tunisia
A Spooner Travelling ovenA immense Spooner Travelling Oven - with the dough for loaves of white bread entering the immense baking oven section of the machine
Kitchen of the Commercial Religious Institute, IstanbulKitchen of the Commercial Religious Institute - Establishment of the Brothers at Kadikoy, Constantinople
Baking Flatbreads at Elisabetpol, AzerbaijanBaking Flatbreads at Gjandzja (Elisabetpol), Western Azerbaijan
Gas advertisement 1954Advertisement by the Gas Industry promoting the use of coal-fired gas as fuel for gas cookers in the 1950s home. To drive home the point
Making PastryPastry is rolled out on the sideboard, then once cooked, the maid is shown removing the pie from the oven, and then once again with plates piled up high, ready for serving
Mavers Picnic Furnace AdAdvertisement for Mavers Picnic Furnace. The handiest, safest & most useful article yet invented for Picnic Parties. Date: June 1931
Stone fragments in the bakery of an archaeological laborator
Cottage Life in Warwickshire: Baking DayIllustration from 1872 showing a scene in a Warwickshire village with women baking bread. Small rural communities would often have only one bread oven which would be fired up on specific days to bake
Social / Canada Oven 19CFrench-Canadian woman puts bread dough into an outdoor oven on a farm
Suggestions for the homes of tomorrow: High frequency cookerPhotograph of a woman demonstrating the cooker of the future, in which the high frequency waves cook right through the food. The invention was a forerunner of the microwave oven, commonly in use today
Sugar Fill-HouseSugar is normally sold in the form of large loaves, shaped like dunces caps : these are prepared in the fill-house before baking in the oven
SUGAR OVENHousehold sugar is normally sold in the form of large loaves, shaped like dunces caps : these are prepared in the fill-house then baked in the oven