Stock Photography Collection (page 6)

Male customers take advantage of the new gaming and betting act which makes it legal to play cards, draughts and dominoes for a small stake of money

Alice and Grace at the Edinburgh Cafe Royal which is famous for its seafood. 20 August 1949

Coffee Luncheons Teas Elevenses at a tea room in Wokingham August 1942

The Forest Tea Lodge in Longhope, Gloucester c. 1920
The Forest Tea Lodge in Longhope, Gloucester c.1920

After making a special journey from the Isle of Arran, the Duchess of Montrose, welcomed by pipers of the London Scottish performed the opening ceremony of the giant new apple store installed at

Bakers exhibition opens in Islington. The confectioners and bakers exhibition has opened at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington

(damaged caption) A new cafeteria - or help yourself restaurant. A new concept brought in from the Untied States when the consumer can put what they would like on a plate

Refrigerators keep apples in condition. Equipped with giant refrigerators and all the latest equipment, a great new storehouse for apples has been built in the extensive orchards a Cockayne Hatley

A grocer selling a variety of exotic fruit and legumes with a window sign in multiple languages, Soho, London, England. undated

Reassuring his customers. Typhoid scare in south London. The typhoid scare is now so grave in south London that a greengrocer in Newington Butts

A wine waiter fixes his bow tie. undated

A man wants to impress his lady friend but two waiters produce the bill to the couple after dinner and the male diner was only intending to tip one. What does he do? 21 February 1948

Mrs. Temperley prepares a pie in the kitchen of the Globe Tavern. A state owned pub in Longtown, Carlisle, Cumbria, England. December 1948

Joe, the landlord, brings up bottles of beer from the cellar to sell at the Globe Tavern. A state owned pub in Longtown, Carlisle, Cumbria, England. December 1948

Where our war time dishes are invented an experimental kitchen at Grosvenor House started by the Ministry of Food, where all new recipes or suggestions for new methods of cookery are tried

Greek cooking at the White Tower restaurant in London comes from Italian chef, Dionisio Camillo 5 September 1956

Waiters collect orders in the kitchen for the first course of a state banquet, Avocado Pears and Shrimps. Mansion House, London, England June 1954

Lamouille, assistant chef of the Ritz Hotel for ten years reads out the orders of the day to kitchen staff as they prepare for another day of culinary excellence. 7 October 1950

Irene Heckman, a waitress at the Lyons Trocadero, lays extra table settings on the instructions of banqueting superintendent Maggi. 1949

London public house landlords summoned to Buckingham Palace to have licences renewed. Five London public house landlords have received summonses to attend a meeting at Buckingham Palace next week for

A hot summers day revelas al fresco dining in West End London, England. 15 May 1947

Fruit stall in the Rupert Street Market, Soho, London, England. undated

Making wine in Spain in province of Cuenca

Olga Noble-Matthews drinks from a Spanish porron as she gathers some facts to add to her pocket directories which are published in 96 pages with 200 headings

Workers bottle washing in a brewery London, England. undated

Italian Produce Company at 37 Old Compton Street, Soho, London, England. undated

Sugar beet factory at Cantley, Norfolk. 1934

Deep below the kitchens the endless conveyors bring endless quantities of dirty dishes for the pearl divers, as the dishwashers are called, to wash up. undated

A waiter rushes through the kitchen door with a tray of food during the rush for orders at lunch. undated

President Lebrun distributes New Year gifts to children. To celebrate the New Year, President Lebrun of France and Madame Lebrun distributed toys to Paris school children at the Elysees Palace

The Cock Pit tea shop in Eton

The One Two Three LCC civic restaurant in High Holborn, London, England. Humphrey Duffield-Harding the newly appointed London County Council Catering officer has the task of seeing that 210

Cock that charmed a butcher, is the enemy of all dogs !. Billy, cock whose charming ways appealed so much to F E Durrant, a butcher of Criclewood, London, that is now a treasured pet

A Baron of beef, weighing 30 stone has arrived at Smithfield Market on its way to the Lord Mayors banquet, which takes place on 9 November

Queue for opening of Wimbledon. Refreshment from mobile cafe. A mobile cafe provide welcome refreshments for tennis enthusiast

An Indian Restaurant in Soho, London, England. 31 May 1947

Whats this talk of meal restrictions. One of the items on Mr Attlees austerity programme seems to have disturbed our Indian friend here, known as a Slender Loris

The Great Western 1846 Drawn by Lane

Wales. The railway at Festiniog and the statioon at Tan-y-Bwlch. 1880

The Opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway September 15th 1830 with the Moorish Arch at Edge Hill as it appeared on that day

Steam train, Russia, pre-revolutionary
Steam train, Imperial Russia, pre-revolutionary TopFoto

Re opening the Festiniog Railway which run from Portmadoo through 27miles of beautiful welsh countryside. The first train after 20 years 6th June 1957

The Diesel Electric Locomotive ( DMS Railway ) pulling out of Euston Station. Also in the picture is one of the latest type of LMS Locomotive 18th December 1947

View of a train on the perilous railway track on Mount Washington. 19th century

First World War Nation of Shopkeepers : people from all walks of life join up in the army to become soldiers, cheerful troops on board a steam train

Underground Extension Works - The scene at Leytonstone during the extension of
" Underground" Extension Works - The scene at Leytonstone during the extension of the Central London Line to Newbury Park - 13 October 1937 ? TopFoto

The Mallard, the fastest train in the world, at Nine Elms astation. Two engine cleaners pause to look at it. It is moved by road to the Museum of British Transport at Clapham, South London

Paymasters car at Blue Creek Station. From 250 in 1865 the construction forces grew to 10, 000 by completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. About one in four were track layers

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