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English Rose kitchen advertisementAdvertisement for the wonderfully retro English Rose fitted kitchens of the 1950s depicting a housewife in a jolly yellow pinny proudly showing off her pristine new kitchen. c.1955
As a pancakeFront cover showing a young French woman with short red hair, revealing pinny and rolled stockings, tossing a pancake! 1927
LYONS NIPPIE CLEARINGA Lyons Nippie clearing tables at a Lyons Corner House. Date: early 1930s
Jolly farmers wife with hen and eggsA jolly grey-haired farmers wife holds a red hen and a basketful of eggs. She wears a large straw hat and a floral-patterned apron. It is summer. Staffordshire, England Date: 1990
Rabbits Wash-Day - Birthday Greetings Postcard Date: 1944
Irish old lady, Co Clare, IrelandA little Irish lady wearing a flowered apron stands in her garden in front of a derelict lorry and a flowering hydrangea. County Clare, Ireland Date: 1990
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Washing upThe caption on the postcard is Washing up - probably a play on sorting things out now that the war is over. The reverse carries a message from Winston Churchill We must now devote all our strength
A postcard photograph from a young housemaid in Wraysbury, Berkshire. She is standing in front of an ivy-clad wall, possible the house of her employer? Date: circa 1909
Yachting Terms Illustrated - A Spanker!"Yachting Terms Illustrated - " A Spanker!" A housewife reacts with furious anger to the indiscretions of her younger son, who has spilt black ink all over her pressed white tablecloth
Waitress serving young gentleman in a tearoom Date: 1930s
Stewardess / Cigs 1960An Air Stewardess sells cigarettes to passengers on a BEA flight between London and Gibraltar Date: 1960
Man and woman performing a comic sketchMan and woman in costume, performing a comic sketch. Date: C.1942
Binnie Hale in NippyA scene from the musical comedy, Nippy, starring popular actress Binnie Hale in the title role (the nippy was a particular sort of waitress associated with J)
Lyons coffee advertisementAdvertisement for Lyons instant coffee granules showing an immaculate 1950s housewife giving a demonstration of how to make the perfect cup of coffee. 1950s
A young girl feeds the birdsA young girl in a pretty pink dress, kneels next to a tree stump and feeds a host of small garden birds out of her hand. Ink drawing with watercolour washes by Malcolm Greensmith
Housewife Pours CoffeeAn immaculate young housewife pours coffee into two cups, and all seems right with the world