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16th Century Inn
The house of rest - A traveller enjoys a meal served by the landlady by the fireside of a country inn, while the dog hopes for scraps. Date: 2nd century

Monorail Project
Hugo Gernsback predicts that New York will be served by elevated monorails, raised above the roofs on columns Date: 1919

Bart. Joubert (Bompled)
BARTHELEMY JOUBERT - French soldier (served in Italy during the Napoleonic campaigns) Date: 1769 - 1799

FURIOUS AIRCRAFT CARR
Aircraft carrier which was built during World War One and served in World War Two : she is seen here in the 1930s with a flight of Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers Date: launched 1916

Tunisia / Dougga
The remains of the Capitol building at Dougga, Tunisia. Dougga served as one of the capitals of Massinissa, a Roman ally, and one of the contenders to Carthage. Date: 1984

Edward VIIs wedding day

Ale at public house
A gamekeeper, fresh from a shoot stops off at The Sportsmans Rest to be served a jug of ale with a loaf of bread

Dining Room, Rowton House, Hammersmith, London
View inside the dining room of a Rowton House in Hammersmith, West London, with male inmates eating at tables and queueing to be served

Hero Worship - postcard by Lawson Wood
Hero Worship - a postcard by Lawson Wood showing a housewife doting on her portly husband (bursting out of his uniform), having served him a meal and provided him with an ale and a comfy chair

Topsy turvy 1854 / Leech
Topsy turvy - or our Antipodes. A reversal of fortune, showing miners being served and waited upon by the upper class

Group of Street Musicians - Turkey
Group of Turkish street musicians eat bread served off a drum. In Turkey the principle constituent of every meal is bread, with meat or fish serving only as the adjunct

A Careful Investment
Two women are being served at a shop counter by a gentleman who is presenting them with items that they may like to purchase

General Sir A. Hunter-Weston / Stamp
Lieutenant General SIR AYLMER GOULD HUNTER WESTON (1864 - 1940) British Army general who served in the First World War and also a politician as MP for Bute and Northern Ayrshire

Boys Club, food serving 1934
An orderly line of hungry boys from a Boys Club wait with bowl in hand for a helping of food served by the club leader. Two tents are seen in the background

Lord Roberts / Stamp
FREDERICK SLEIGH 1st EARL ROBERTS British soldier who served in India, Afghanistan and South Africa

Kings X Demolished
Demolition of the Kings Cross, a monument to George IV that served as an exhibition hall, a police station and finally a beer shop. It was not much mourned

Keeping His Hand In, by Bruce Bairnsfather
Private Smith, the company bomber, formerly Shino, the popular juggler, frequently causes considerable anxiety to his platoon

Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903-1978), in about 1928. Nicholas was Queen Marie of Romanias second son and the grandson of Prince Alfred of Edinburgh. He attended Eton and served in the British Navy

Mahmut Sevket Pasa
Ottoman soldier and statesman who, in 1909, suppressed a religious uprising, forced the subsequent deposition of Sultan Abdlhamid II, and served as grand vizier (chief minister) in 1913

Poor children being fed in Limehouse, London
Irish-stew dinner being served to poor children at the Conder Street Mission Hall in Limehouse, London

Sunday at the Foundling Hospital
This is a scene on sunday at the Foundling Hospital where orphans are sitting down to a meal on long tables and being served by young women in aprons and caps

The Removal of Kings Cross, London, 1845
Engraving showing the dismantling and removal of the Kings Cross building in London, 1845. The building served as exhibition hall, police station and beer shop in its time

Princess Elizabeths Prison in the Tower of London
Engraving showing the interior of the room in the Bell Tower, at the Tower of London, which served as Princess Elizabeths (later Elizabeth I) prison in the middle of the sixteenth century

Admiral W. W. Percival Johnson (1790-1880)
Engraved portrait of Admiral W.W. Percival Johnson (1790-1880), the English sailor, who served as a midshipman on HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar

Earl of Athlone
Major General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, formerly Prince Alexander of Teck (14 April 1874-16 January 1957)

Prince Alexander of Teck, Earl of Athlone
Major General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, formerly Prince Alexander of Teck (14 April 1874-16 January 1957)

Stephen Allen Benson (1816-1865)
Engraved portrait of Stephen Allen Benson (1816-1865), the second president of Liberia who served from 1856-64, pictured in 1862

Torpedo Room of a U-boat, pre-Second World War
Photograph showing the crew of a German submarine (U-boat) relaxing in their bunks in the bow torpedo chamber, c.1938. This photograph shows the cramped conditions typically of the submarines that

Arthur Greenwood (1880-1954) British Labour politician who served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health during the Labour government of 1924

Bazaar at Kadikol, near Balaklava, Crimean War, 1856
Engraving of busy street scene at Balaklava at the end of the Crimean war. Soldiers and civilians jostle together, some on horseback, civilians in typical russian dress, caps and belted long coats

Colonel Kents Horse, 1875
Engraving of a horse, Colonel Kents charger, which served in the Crimean War and was still alive 20 years later

Lloyd George and Herbert Samuel
The Liberal politicians David Lloyd George (1863-1945) and Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) watching a passing parade. Lloyd George was War Minister

Small Moulds - 2
These small moulds are sold by the dozen, so that your guests can be served individual portions

Small Moulds - 3
These small moulds are sold by the dozen, so that your guests can be served individual portions

Spencer Cavendish, Marquis of Hartingdon (1833-1908)
Engraving of Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquis of Hartington and 8th Duke of Devonshire, pictured in 1880. Cavendish was an English politician who served the Liberal party in various positions

The Church in the firing-line
A French soldier-priest ministering to his comrades under fire. In 1915, it was estimated that over 20, 000 priests served in the French army in some capacity

Revolving gun-turret
A revolving German gun-turret, revealed after constant bombardment of its trench by the French in September 1915. The turret had a quick-firing gun served by three men, who were locked inside

Sir Richard Francis Burton disguised as a Pathan, c. 1853
Engraving of Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), the English explorer, linguist and diplomat, disguised as a Pathan, c.1853

The 2nd Marquis of Salisbury (1791-1868)
Engraving of James Brownlow William, 2nd Marquis of Salisbury, who served as Lord Privy Seal (1852) and Lord President of the Council (1858)

Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1895)
Engraving of Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, the English Conservative politician, who served as Indian Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, seen shortly after accepting the latter post

Lord Odo Russell, (1829-1884)
Engraving of Lord Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Lord Ampthill, the distinguished diplomat who served as British Ambassador at Berlin, 1871-1884

Herbert Henry Asquith MP, (1852-1928)
Portrait of H.H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford & Asquith, pictured in 1915. Asquith served as QC, Liberal MP for East Fife and Paisley and Prime Minister

Spencer Horatio Walpole (1807-1898)
Photographic portrait of Spencer Horatio Walpole, the English politician who served as Home Secretary three times in the Cabinet of Lord Derby

Launch of HMS Windsor Castle, September 1852
Engraving of the re-launch of HMS Windsor Castle, 140 Gun First rate warship, on 14th September 1852 at Pembroke Dockyard

Chicago Docks - 1
Though landlocked and served only by lakes and canals, Chicagos docks are very busy

Italy San Gimignano
Although legend attributes the high towers of the town to family rivalries, in fact they served a practical purpose to hang and dry the safron-dyed cloth produced locally

Jean-Baptiste Marchand
JEAN BAPTISTE MARCHAND French soldier and explorer in Africa, involved in the Fashoda incident causing diplomatic crisis: served in China and in World War One

A help yourself grocery - checkout
Photograph taken from a United States supermarket in 1948, where Britains queues and rations are unknown, showing a woman being served at the checkout

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