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Primus StoveTHE PRIMUS STOVE North, South, East or West Primus is best
WW2 - Chef cooking in a bombed-out street - Blitz, LondonWW2 - His restaurant and kitchen destroyed by German bombing, a Chef continues to cook al fresco in a bombed-out street - Blitz, London. Date: circa 1941
Boots advertisement WW1 - comforts for the trenchesBoots advertisement warning Remember, there are no Chemists Shops in the Trenches
Central heating for cars / W H RobinsonThe Autofooetjoye central heating device, consisting of a small zinc water tank glued to the back of the car
Primus Stove 1932The Primus stove is an indispensable item in any campers equipment, burning paraffin gas without a wick, pumped by hand and extremely efficient
1940S Housewife CookingA housewife cooks on a simple stove in a bare and austere kitchen, adding milk to the pan she is stirring
Advert for the Radiation New World Gas Cooker 1933Radiation porcelain enamelled New World Gas Cookers, the only gas cookers with regulo control. Ask to see the unrivalled Radiation New World Gas cooker at your gas showrooms
Traditional Japanese bathing in upright wooden tub, heated by a small side stove Date: 1930
Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers 1938Providing ample accommodation for all the food and untensils required in cooking for a family of 6 to 8
Woman Cooking 1960SA woman in an apron holds a saucepan ready over the hob as she turns it on
KETTLE CATA ginger cat about to be boiled in a kettle on the kitchen hob!
Thessaloniki, Greece - Tripe Kebab Seller Date: circa 1916
Bedtime by Muriel DawsonCharming illustration depicting a very sweet little girl with straight bobbed hair and a pot belly warming her toes by the stove before bedtime
Advert / Enameline PolishENAMELINE STOVE POLISH for polishing stoves, grates, ranges, etc
Advert Gas Stove AcmeAcme Gas Stoves - " No thank you, Mr Soot!"
German KitchenA maid in a simple kitchen with stove, sink, racks, chopping block, tub and saucepans
Girl reading a letter beside a stove, Japan, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s
Making a Pie 1912A young woman trims the excess pastry from a pie, prior to baking it
Advert for Carron Company - Cooker Range 1911Advertising the Carron range, with inner glass door. Date: 1911
Advert for Carron Company - Cooking Range 1910New range the Carron with thermometer fitted and an inner door that was of transparent glass so the cook could see the progress of the food. Date: 1910
Advert for New Carron Company - Range 1910The new Carron case iron range, fitted in recessed fireplace. Date: 1910
Dolly's Kitchen - two finely dressed porcelain dolls working behind an impressive kitchen range. Date: 1907
Georgian gentlemen eating soup from a tureen in a garretGeorgian gentlemen eating soup from a tureen at a dinner table in a garret. A chef in cap and apron tends a boiling pot on a stove. A rabbit and game bird hang in the hearth. A Banquet
Ornamental plaque of a lady playing a harpsichord, RouenOrnamental plaque with central medallion of a lady playing a harpsichord, Rouen. For a stove or fireplace
Rain flower, Pancratium zeylanicumRain flower, One-flowered pancratium or sea-daffodil, Pancratium zeylanicum. Native to Ceylon, Sri Lanka, India, drawn at the stove at Spofforth
Ornamental air stove and chimney-piece designed by May and Morrit, Oxford Street, London. Stove in steel with removable brass and ormolu ornaments
Gothic chimney-piece and stove. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, etc. Strand, London, 1824
Interior of a working class home 1920Decor of early 1910s working class home, but photograph taken near the end or just after the First World War, showing carpeted floor, wallpaper, photographs in frames and ornaments on shelving
The Victorian kitchen at Brodsworth Hall, Brodsworth, Doncaster, England. Photographed in 1989 with full permission of then owners Ron and Pam Williams Date: 1989
Gentleman trying to play footsie with a beauty at the tableGentleman trying to play footsie with a beauty under the dining table but pressing the wrong foot. More Miseries
Advert, James Gray & Son, Edinburgh, ScotlandAdvert for James Gray & Son, Stove and Grate Makers, Kitchen Ranges, Electric Light Fittings, George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1905
Advert for Rippingilles oil warming stoves 1890Made of cast-iron these four decorative oil-warming stoves are odourless, smokeless, portable, safe and easy to clean. Available at ironmonagers. Date: 1890
The Davis Gas Stove Co. AdvertisementAn illustrated advertisement for the Davis Gas Stove Co. Ltd, promoting a Georgian gas interior suite, with a unique gas grate. Date: circa 1916
Advert, Zixt Hand Soap, WW2Advert, Zixt Hand Soap, featuring a warden doing dirty wartime work, WW2 Date: 1943
Improved gas cooking and heating range. Date: 1862
Comic postcard, Just thawed out Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Whats cooking? Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Chair, drink, smoke and dog Date: 20th century
c. 1880s Japan - geishas with a kettle and stovec.1880s Japan - geishas with a kettle and stove
1860s Japan - portrait of a group including a singer, musician, and tattooed man Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China
c. 1880s Japan - young women cooking a meal
Woman at a stove, JapanVintage 19th century photograph: woman at a stove, Japan, probably the work of the Shimooka Renjo studio
c. 1880s Japan - women preparing a meal
c. 1880s Japan - young women preparing a meal in a kitchen
Two young women reading and staying warm, JapanTwo young women reading and staying warm under blankets around a stove beneath a kotatsu table, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph
Women of the merchant or artisan class. Waka poetry tutor in a daimyos house. Servants sewing, writing poems, wrapping items and carrying rice
Edo street scene, 18th century, with archery rangeEdo street scene, 18th century. A shop girl sits in front of an archery range holding a bow. A tea shop girl stands on a bench with a candle. A woman and edemame seller with baby pass by
Plan and elevation for a Regency dairy. Floorplan shows conservatory and servants room. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1816
Valor stoveFrom an advertisement for Valor stoves ringers from the 1930s Date: 1931
Gas Bus the first one [in photo] was in public service between Kingston and Epsom Downs yesterday [2 Nov 1939]
Supper Dishes cooked in the New World Gas CookerSupper Dishes cooked in the New World Regulo-Controlled Gas Cooker. 1920s
Advert, Gas Cooking Stove, Kingston-upon-Thames Gas Company, Thames Street, Surrey. 1902
Metal stove, pot and terracotta vaseMetal stove to heat the baths found outside the Porta San Sebastiano in the vineyard of Mr
Taberna near the fountain of Mercury, VI. 5, PompeiiThermolopium or taberna near the fountain of Mercury, VI.5, Pompeii. A man cooks food at a stove, while a women serves a customer using scales
Garden architecture, greenhouse or conservatory in a park. Chromolithograph from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1896
The new greenhouses in the Royal Gardens at Laken, Brussels, built by the Compagnie Continentale d Horticulture. Woodcut by A.H. from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1885
Establishment of the International Horticultural Society, Brussels, Belgium. Woodcut by E.H. Tilly from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1888
Scene in an American farmhouse on a winterScene in an American farmhouse on a November night, mid 19th century. Family members playing cards at a table, men smoking pipes, etc
Advert, Dobbie, Forbes & Co, Ironfounders, ScotlandAdvert for Dobbie, Forbes & Co, Ironfounders and American Stove Manufacturers, Larbert, Scotland. 1905
Fireplaces, Hearths, Grates and Kerbs. 19th century
Edward Pink & Sons - BrushesEdward Pink & Sons - range of brushes with prices. 1888
Young woman cooking in a kitchen Date: circa 1990s
Woman and boy in a kitchen, possibly as part of a safety in the home campaign. Date: circa 1960s
Typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix, WW1A typical French kitchen stove, with Hortense Delacroix. Here I took my cafe au lait each morning before going down line
The Kitchen of the Bratwurstglocklein in Nuremberg, GermanyThe Kitchen of the most famous purveyor of traditional Nurnberg Bratwurst sausages, the Bratwurstglocklein (Little Sausage Bell)
Spartan Kitchen Date: 1880
Blue and White Kitchen Date: 1948
Family Camping Trip Date: 1947
Lodgings for travellers 1856London travellers could afford to rent lodgings in the poor districts in the out-of-the-way suburbs of London, neglected purlieus in dirty and diseased neighbourhoods. Date: 1856
Advert for Novelty Stoves Co. 1899Aluminum and nickel finish oil stove, with no smoke or odour. Date: 1899
USE FOR CRINOLINESA novel suggestion for the use of cage crinolines - an ornament for the Fire Stove! Date: 1859
LADY COOKS IN CHEMISEWho needs an apron? A woman cooks at the stove wearing her chemise. Date: 1903
POOR INVENTOR AT WORKA scruffy, poor inventor is immersed in his work while his wife and daughter try to warm themselves at the stove - will they ever get rich? Date: 1886
FEETHAM STOVE 1862The FEETHAM STOVE exhibited at the 1862 Exhibition, London (see catalogue for details) Date: 1862
WOOD STOVE POSTERPoster for MIRUS wood stove, which, if you are wise enough to purchase one, will entitle you to thumb your nose at Jack Frost Date: 1923
Lady at the stove 1919After World War One, the housewife does her own cooking with a smart modern stove Date: 1919
LIGHTING HIS PIPEWhile a young man smokes a very long pipe, his partner lights it with a hot coal from the stove Date: 1850
C17 METALWORKERA metalworker sits on a trestle and uses his hammer on a metal item softened by heating on that nearby stove. Date: 17th century
Izba InteriorInterior of an IZBA - a well- to-do Russian peasant home, with an ikon, decorated stove (with someone asleep on it !), ornamental woodwork Date: early 19th century
Page of Victorian adverts for household items 1888Selection page of Victorian household hardware items for everyday use. 1888
Female contortionist Diana Gaye making teaThe female contortionist Diana Gaye in the kitchen with her mother, making a pot of tea. (2 of 2) Date: 1971
Advert for Wright & Butler Limited petroleum stoves 1888Wright & Butlers decorative patent cast iron petroleum domestic stoves with pierced foliate caps, cleanliness and convenience in filling
CookingWoman in the kitchen, 1910. She uses a stove but also has a gas cooker Date: 1910
Advert for Dobble, Forbes & Co stoves and ranges 1888A selection of three matchless combustion heating stoves, kitchen ranges with self-setting and fuel saving and a new portable cast-iron washing copper