Oysters Collection (page 2)

Cov. Garden Breakfast
At Covent Garden, a breakfast stall for the market porters and merchants - pies and oysters, coffee enjoyed beneath the flaring oil torches. Date: 1870

Cartoon, Cost of food and drink, WW1
Cartoon illustrating the cost of food and drink during the First World War. Various tradesmen comment on the cost of their produce. Date: 1916

Piles of oyster shells, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Piles of oyster shells at Hampton, Virginia, USA, with boats in the foreground. Date: circa 1905

Oyster vendor
Fresh oysters! Penny a lot. Street oyster seller. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

SCOTTs OYSTER BAR
Scotts Oyster Bar, in the West End of London. Date: 1930s

Scotts Oyster Bars
A group of waiters at Scotts Oyster Bar, West End, London. Date: 1930s

Still Life with Oysters. Iten, Hans 1874-1930

Spoof postcard on the Colchester Native Oyster Beds ! Date: circa 1910s

France - Arcachon - Oyster Gatherer
A wonderful postcard photograph of a woman Oyster Gatherer (Parqueuse) from Arcachon in the Gironde department in southwestern France

Scotts Restaurant in London - famed for its oysters and lobster, formerly with sawdust on the floor and a zinc bar. On the corner of Piccadilly and Shaftesbury Avenue. Date: circa early 1920s

Cancale, Brittany, France - The Oyster Beds
The departure of the Fishing Fleet from Cancale, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. Date: circa 1906

London Oyster Stall 1861
The first day of oysters in the streets of London - enthusiastic customers keep the traders busy opening shells Date: 1861

St. Nicholas Restaurant. Shell oysters received daily by express.... B. Roth & Sons, prop rs. Man carrying oysters on half shell and bottle of ale on tray. Date c1873. St. Nicholas Restaurant

Champagne and oysters. Date c1878

Arab pearl divers at work, 1903
Arab pearl divers at work. As a result of long practice, they are able to remain underwater for some minutes, during which time they collect the pearl oysters from the ocean bed. Date: 1903

Washing Oysters / Photo
OYSTER INDUSTRY - fishermen washing oysters Date: 1930

Not keen on Egyptian Food
A British Tourist wearing a straw boater and white suit, takes offence at " the smell" of the Egyptian seafood dish he is presented with

Bartholomew Fair (1721)
Coloured, semi-circular illustration of Bartholomew Fair (1721), with small text giving the history of the fair, published by J. F. Setchel, London, c1820. HPF/5C/47

Seafood Stall 1950S
A fish stall at Brixham, Devon, England, selling oysters, crabs and shrimps, etc

Leslie Mitchell learns about oysters. A Picture Page broad
Mr Cunningham of Cunningham s, Mayfair standing before the television camera during a Picture Page broadcast with Leslie Mitchell

Curiosities and ingenuities from the Patent Office; Curious
Sketch of a cross section of a curious apparatus for securing oysters. Two men work in a submarine-like pod at the bottom of the sea, scooping up oysters with a rake

Lobster, Oysters & Ale
A plate of oysters and a lobster, accompanied by a glass of pale ale

Mac Fisheries Poulterers
Mac Fisheries in Cheltenham, taking orders for Christmas for local home fed chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, capons and English pheasants, rabbits, hares and oysters

Oyster Seller
Fine oysters !

London Oyster Stall
A London stall : Penny a lot, Oysters ! Penny a lot !

Oysters in a Village
The first day of oysters in an English country village

Paris Oyster Stall
A Parisian oyster seller offers a wide choice of oysters at varying prices - and when theres no R in the month, I go to my man !

Racial / Japan / Fisherwomen
Two Japanese fisherwomen

Shelves of Food
Shelves full of an incredible array of food, including bread, biscuits, fruit, eggs, crab, lobster, oysters, fish, sausages, a crown of lamb, meat, cheese, wine, cakes, &c

French Oyster Woman - 2
A parqueuse d huitres - oyster gatherer - of Cap Ferret, near Arcachon in south- west France. Her shoes may lack Parisian chic but are eminently practical

French Oyster Woman
A parqueuse d huitres - oyster gatherer - of Arcachon in south- west France

Sorting Oysters
oyster sorters sorting oysters

Dining on Oysters
An insolent young man smoking a cigar, puts on his gloves as he makes a parting comment to an affronted older gentleman who is stopped in the act of smashing open an oyster

Pyne - Fishermen (2)
FISHERMEN - From Great Yarmouth at work among the great shoals of herrings, mackerel, pilchards, whitings, sprats, salmon, cod, oysters, lobsters found in our waters

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