Poultry Collection (page 11)

Jugend front cover, two soldiers with poultry
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting two rather ugly soldiers in red uniform, leering at a turkey and a goose. Perhaps they are looking forward to cooking and eating them. Date: 1898

16 / 17th C. London Street
A northwest view of the house of William Parker, Lord Monteagle, in the parish of St Saviour s, Southwark - a good example of unpretentious town houses of the period Date: 16-17th century

Aftermath of major fire, Smithfield Poultry Market, London
The aftermath of a fire at Smithfield Poultry Market, London, on 23 January 1958, looking east along the southern gangway, taken about 36 hours after the fire had broken out

Askett Duck Farm
Picking shed, Askett Duck Farm, Aylesbury 1900 Date: 1900

Cockerel, hen and chicks in a farmyard
A cockerel, hen and three chicks in a farmyard. Date: circa early 20th century

Choosing Christmas dinner, Manchester
A woman choosing her Christmas dinner goose at one of many stands at the Central Market in Manchester. It was customary in many of the markets of the North of England for geese

Six women in Chicken Stealing Competition
Six women competitors in the Chicken Stealing Competition held at the Essex Motor Club Annual Gymkhana at High Beach, Epping Forest, Essex. circa 1911

Joyce Green Hospital - Poultry runs - isolation blocks in di
Poultry runs with isolation blocks in distance at the Joyce Green Smallpox Hospital at Long Reach near Dartford. The hospital, which was operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, open in 1903

Silhouette of geese and a windmill

The Graphic Christmas Number 1924 front cover
Front cover of The Graphic, Christmas Number 1924 featuring a gleeful cherub riding a concerned looking turkey, who has the added humiliation of a Christmas cracker hanging around his neck. Date: 1924

Feeding Geese
Feeding time, a scene on a farm in Cheshire, England, showing geese and poultry being fed on grain. Date: 1960s

Boys with bats and stumps frighten the birds away
Boys with bats and stumps, on their way to play cricket, frighten the cockerel and his family away. Date: 1937

A cockerel catches the moth, watched by his hen and chicks. Jack Sparrow misses out again. Date: 1937

Bird Enclosure - Valmondois, France
Early outdoor wire and mesh bird enclosure, for poultry, pigeons and possibly doves at the Maubuisson Mill at Valmondois, Seine Region, France. Date: 1911

London Poultry
in the heart of the City of London Date: circa 1900

Eggs / France / 18th C
The Art of making chicks hatch. Eggs are kept in barrels buried in dung. Thermometers are used to control the temperature and make eggs hatch faster. Date: Circa 1760

The Signal by Harry Rowntree
A small, rather terrified-looking boy scout holds his staff aloft in the signal for enemy in large numbers although the enemy in this case is a gaggle of curious geese. 1911

British troops in street market at Bailleul, France, WW1
British troops buying geese in a street market at Bailleul, northern France, during the First World War, no doubt for their Christmas dinner. Date: December 1916

Keeping poultry at Grindale, Yorkshire Date: circa 1906

Spot the Chicken
A rather suspicious looking group of men, one of them holding a hen, Piccadilly Circus, London. Date: 1930s

Chick in Egg / 18th C
A view of a baby chick as if it was in its egg and various stages of the hatching. Date: Circa 1760

Farmyard in France C1760
A typical 18th century farmyard in France with farmers, dogs, poultry, the press, the barn, the pond and the storeroom. Date: Circa 1760

Devonshire Farmstead
A springtime scene at Wormhill Farm, a picturesque farmstead on the edge of Dartmoor, near North Bovey, Devon, England. Date: 1950s

Yorkshire Farmhouse
A typical Yorkshire farmhouse, with poultry in the farmyard, on the Harrogate to Ripon Road, Yorkshire, England. Date: 18th or 19th century

RHEA CHICK
Pecking order : Poultry chicks teaching a 3 day old Rhea chick how to peck! Date: 1960s

Old lady and five geese
An old lady goes for a walk, and is irritated by the cackling of five geese. first published 1879

Three children playing on a hill. A girl and boy dance, while another boy sits on a stile and plays a penny trumpet. Below is a hen and her chicks. first published 1879

Silhouette - Children and Birds (" Small Animal-friends" ) - by Karl Frohlich 1856

The wonderful American hen with three wings and four legs. The greatest living curiosity in the world, as exhibited at 26 Charing Cross Road, London

Victorian Farmyard (The farmyard). A general scene the farm with sheep and poultry. Unattributed illustrator Date: circa 1870

Victorian Farmyard (The poultry). A closer look at poultry. Ducks, chicken and turkeys in the farmyard. Unattributed illustrator Date: circa 1870

The Cock with Two Wives by George Ranstead
Second in a series of six drawings depicted the Aesop Fable about the man with two wives but acted out by chickens instead

Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur - Poultry or game vendors Date: circa 1910s

Turkeys in Turkey
A flock of Turkeys destined for the market at Salihli, a large town and district of Manisa Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. Date: circa 1920s

Japanese bantam hens, 1890
Black-tailed white Japanese Bantams Date: 1890

For Christmas day in the morning -- two boys drive two white geese down the street. 20th century

Five studies of a cockerel

Six studies of poultry -- a cockerel and a chick

John Gow Ltd - Conaught Street, London. Purveyors of Fish, poultry, game, eggs and ice. There is a whole row of geese for sale at the front of the display. Date: circa 1905

Urban Chicken
Why did the chicken cross the road? A cheeky chicken becomes the talk of the town. Date: 1930s

Well-Fed Cock
This cock has been well fed on Phoenix Poultry Foods, as made by Walker, Harrison and Garthwaite in their London manufactory. (Gallus species) Date: circa 1910

How an egg grows
Which comes first ? Your answer I beg : Is it the chicken ? Or is it the egg ? Date: circa 1880

Smithfield Market 1875
Metropolitan Poultry Market, SMITHFIELD Date: 1875

Budapest Poultry Market
The Poultry Market at Pest (as in Budapest). Date: 1877

Double page spread in a diary for 12-17 August
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 12-17 August. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Street repairs in Dublin, Ireland
Three men busy doing street repairs in Dublin, Ireland. The man on the left is laying a paving slab. There are some rather ornate advertisements on the hoarding behind them, one for a family chemist

Red-haired gipsy boy with a chicken
A red-haired gipsy boy sits on a battered-looking scooter holding a chicken

Gipsy girl in a bright blue jumper with a chicken
A gipsy girl wearing a bright blue knitted jumper puts her arm round a chicken

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