Food Collection (page 9)

A restaurant proprietor of Dean Street, Soho, has, for 30 years, supplied a dainty dish of snails for his customers. They are in season now and in great demand 16 October 1922

Mrs A R Cunliffe Owen with one of her Chinese ducks at the international poultry show at Olympia 8 December 1924

Salmon fishing Kamchatka, A boiling cauldron of fish in Russia 1920

Netting salmon smolts on the River Wye

The snail season opens in a Soho restaurant 18 October 1922

Lady chefs in the making at the LCC Technical Institute, Vincent Square, London. 22 October 1925

Taken for the Aerated Bread Company. 31 March 1920

Londons Statue Strange Surrounding The statue of the late Lord Holland, erected in his memory of Holland House Kensington now appears in strange surroundings. 13 June 1920

Swans ring for their dinner at the Bishops Palace, Wells, Somerset. The mother of a brood of cygnets on the moat surrounding the Bishops Palace at Wells has taught her offspring to pull a string

Wive of the workless taking home the food dole. 2 September 1921

Oysters open in their shells. 10 September 1925

Eel spearing on the Hampshire Avon. 23 June 1923

Food and cookery exhibition at the Horticultural Hall, London. M Bianchi, the Trocadero chef, with his wonderful model in suet. 16 February 1925

Eel fishing on the Hampshire river Avon 18 August 1920

Lady Rosabelle Brand with ducklings on her duck farm at Littledene near Lewes, Sussex

The opening of Hinds restaurant, Eltham. 22 February 1936

Salmon fishing at Symonds Yat

Schoolchildren helping to spray allotment holders potatoes at Ewell 22 June 1917 9 July 1926

Count the calories but not on Christmas Day with traditional Christmas Pudding and white sauce on the lunch menu, Talardy Hotel, St Asaph, Denbighshire, North Wales

Autumn window display of quality products in a confectioners, Duesseldorf, Germany
Autumn window display of quality products in a confectioner s, Duesseldorf, Germany

Handwritten breakfast menu on a board outside a cafe, Rhyl, Denbighshire, North Wales

Herring salted and ready for grilling on a barbecue at the annual open-air herring festival held in November in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France

Grilled herring served in a sauce, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France

Miss Brands party in Southend, Essex. Cutting the cake. 1938

Ladies Hockey at Merton Abbey Miss Pieree, Surrey second eleven goal keeper 31 January 1931

Puppies feeding at the South Darenth Kennels in Kent. 1935

Children being entertained by an accordian band while they have their Christmas breakfast at Crayford, Kent. 1937

The Christmas Bazaar held at the Convent School in Sidcup, Kent. 1936

Mrs W E Wakefield with her daughters sitting by the dining table at their home in Gravesend, Kent. 1939

The top table at the Farningham Golf Club dinner. 1937

For the first time (since pre-war days) a Kent strawberry field has been thrown open to the public to come and help themselves. However, in the old days the fruit was free - but on K

Orpington cookery show. Looking at the exhibits. 1937

Working the tea urn at the gas works party at St Mary Cray, Kent. 1938

The Farningham Womens Institute birthday party. A group photo. 1939

Jim Bradford preparing to haul in the shrimp nets - 1936 A TopFoto
Jim Bradford preparing to haul in the shrimp nets - 1936 eTopFoto

Doctor Sinclair carving the Christmas turkey for the patients on the ward at Erith Hospital. 1937

Winters wash at Orpington Pond, the source of the River Cray. A horse and cart negotiates the rising water in Orpington Pond during a downpour. 1935

Traditional cornish pasties made the traditional way. 1936

Meat and bone for lettuce on Jacksons farm near Ruxley, Kent. 18th July 1947

A childrens party at the Working Mens club in Sidcup, Kent. 1938

Puppies eating out of a trough at the South Darenth Kennels in Kent. 1935

The Sidcup and Chislehurst Childrens Labour Party. 1938

Canon Rs Greaves shows of a cake to children in Chislehurst, Kent. 1939

Ploughing in a snowstorm when Britain needed food - January 1947 A TopFoto
Ploughing in a snowstorm when Britain needed food - January 1947 eTopFoto

Childrens party at the Ideal Sports Club in Chislehurst, Kent. 1937

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Men making mash for the pigs at Tripes pig farm, Orpington, Kent. 1936

Workmen on their tea break feeding the swans during the reconstruction of the gardens in Mottingham. 1937

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