Catering Collection

The Royal Logistic Corps. The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) was formed in 1993, by the union of the following British Army corps: Royal Corps of Transport, Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Chefs eating lunch at Sherrys restaurant, New York, 1902 (silver gelatin print)
MNY380765 Chefs eating lunch at Sherrys restaurant, New York, 1902 (silver gelatin print) by Byron Company (fl.1890-1942); 27.9x35.6 cm; Museum of the City of New York

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Group photo, Claridges Hotel kitchen staff, Mayfair, London W1. Date: 1908

Galley, Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, 1933. The Graf Zeppelin was the most successful airship ever built. Between its first flight in 1928 and retirement in 1937

Bar in the Adlon Hotel, Berlin, Germany. Date: 1930

Soho, London - 2 and 3 Greek Street, the Gay Hussar restaurant and the Soho Wine Market, next to the House of St Barnabas. 1973

Soho, London - 18 Greek Street W1 - Mirandas Private Members Club, cabaret and restaurant (formerly The Establishment Club). 1973

Chef; Le Cuisinier, (oil on canvas)
653335 Chef; Le Cuisinier, (oil on canvas) by Lebasque, Henri (1865-1937); 64.7x54.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Chef; Le Cuisinier. Henri Lebasque (1865-1937). Oil on canvas

Cafe, Port d Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, Europe

Soho, London - 42 Great Windmill Street W1 - Nosh Bar delicatessen and hot salt beef bar, photographed at night. 1973

Hotel Kitchens
The chefs and staff in the restaurant kitchen of the Hotel Cecil. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Dining Hall, Reedham Orphanage, Purley, Surrey
The dining hall at the Reedham Orphanage, Old Lodge Lane, Purley, Surrey. It was founded by the Rev Dr Andrew Reed, a Congregational Minister

Dining Hall, Alexandra Orphanage, Haverstock Hill, London
The dining hall of the Alexandra Orphanage on Maitland Park Road, Haverstock Hill, North London. Sausages appear to be the dish of the day

Patriotic Bovril advertisement during WW2
Patriotic Bovril advertisement during the Second World War -- Cheers! Date: 1940s

Poster, BOAC takes good care of you
Poster, BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) takes good care of you. 20th century

Dining room, Roycroft Inn, East Aurora, New York State, USA
Dining room of the Roycroft Inn, East Aurora, New York State, USA. Date: 1914

Gallaghers Steak House, New York City, USA
View of the Bar in Gallaghers Steak House, West 52nd Street, New York City, USA. Famous for steaks broiled over hickory logs, private dining room available for beefsteak parties. Date: circa 1930s

Firefighters outside a canteen van, Battersea, London
Firefighters in traditional brass helmets enjoying some refreshments outside a canteen van in Battersea Park, London, watched by a boy on roller skates. Date: 1937

Taken for the Aerated Bread Company. 7 April 1920

Firefighters outside mobile kitchen, WW2
Firefighters enjoying a mug of tea outside a mobile kitchen presented to the National Fire Service by the Order of the Eastern Star, Manitoba, Canada, during the Second World War

Tea break for firefighters, London, WW2
Tea break for a group of London firefighters, standing by an LCC canteen van. Date: 1940s

Firefighters outside mobile kitchen, WW2
Firefighters enjoying a mug of tea outside a mobile kitchen presented to the National Fire Service by the Order of the Eastern Star, Manitoba, Canada, during the Second World War

Cadiz, Costa de la Luz, Andalucia, Spain, Europe

WWI - Mobile German Field Bakery - Western Front Date: circa 1916

Interior view, Maison Prunier, St Jamess Street, London
Interior view of the restaurant, Maison Prunier, St Jamess Street, London. It opened in 1935. Date: circa 1930s

Dining saloon on a London to Liverpool express train
The dining saloon on the London & North Western Railways non-stop express from London Euston to the Riverside Station, Liverpool, for the Atlantic cruise liners. Date: circa 1912

Advertisement for Ye Olde Jacobean cafe, Derby
Advertisement for Ye Olde Jacobean, The Wardwick, Derbys Supreme Cafe, where you need not be ashamed to meet your friends, and where you can hear the famous electric gramophone

Group photo, Carlton Hotel kitchen staff, London, posing on the hotel roof in November 1908. Date: 1908

LFB firefighters taking a tea break during their attendance at a fire. Date: circa 1950s

Bills Gay Nineties, New York, USA
Bills Gay Nineties, 57 East 54th Street, New York, USA -- a retro-style cafe and bar looking back to the good old 1890s. Date: circa 1940

Kitchen staff, Piccadilly Hotel, London W1
Group photo of kitchen staff and others, possibly with the manager at the centre of the front row, Piccadilly Hotel, London W1. Date: 1908

Futuristic fast food stops on the Channel crossing
A futuristic scene showing fast food stops for aeroplane pilots on the Channel crossing

Artists' bar 'Au Lapin Agile' on Montmartre Artists' bar 'Au Lapin Agile' on Montmartre. The guitar playing owner Frede sits with guests in the famous music

NUPE and GMBATU school meals campaign, Croydon
NUPE and GMBATU representatives at a press conference to launch a Save our school meals campaign in the London Borough of Croydon, 29 June 1983. Date: 1983

The Serpentine Restaurant in Hyde Park. 1977 The restaurant was designed by Patrick Gwynne and opened in 1964. It was demolished in 1990

The pride of Lyon s, the staff of Lyons Corner House. Nippies, Gaynor Kirk, aged 18, George Rogers, 23, and Lynette Lawler, 24, and Diana Mitchell, 25. 19th June 1981

Joe Lyons opens their Showboat Theatre restaurant at the Strand Corner House. 62-year-old Bill Lines, from Battersea, started at the Corner House just 30 years and three weeks ago

Stan Thomas, of Peters Food Service, a Bedwas based baker and supplier of pies, pasties, slices and sausage rolls. Stan is pictured at a boxing night at Dowlais recreation centre, Dowlais

Qualico Centre. Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Coryton Refinery cafeteria JLP01_067_26
CORYTON OIL REFINERY, THURROCK, ESSEX. Staff using the food counter at the newly built self-service cafeteria at Coryton Oil Refinery

Tavern in Plakias, Crete, Greece

Japanese soldiers preparing rice in Manchuria (chromolitho)
2782831 Japanese soldiers preparing rice in Manchuria (chromolitho) by European School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Japanese soldiers preparing rice in Manchuria)

Serving coffee to Austrian soldiers on the march (chromolitho)
2782829 Serving coffee to Austrian soldiers on the march (chromolitho) by European School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Serving coffee to Austrian soldiers on the march)

Army field bakery in Germany (chromolitho)
2782827 Army field bakery in Germany (chromolitho) by European School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Army field bakery in Germany. Liebig card, published in the early 20th century)

Distribution of tinned food to soldiers in India (chromolitho)
2782828 Distribution of tinned food to soldiers in India (chromolitho) by European School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Distribution of tinned food to soldiers in India)

The old hostess, c. 1660. Creator: Cornelis Bega
The old hostess, c. 1660. Depicting Dutch tavern life in the mid to late 17th century: a nondescript, austere and after-dark setting, with three foreground, ageing male drinkers

Coffee House, 1851 (wood engraving)
1574620 Coffee House, 1851 (wood engraving); (add.info.: A coffee house, Istanbu, Turkey. Wood engraving c1851.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Palace of Diocletian Croatia - Luxor Restaurant in the Roman Diocletian Palace, World Heritage Site, Old town of Split
IMB4872123 Palace of Diocletian Croatia - Luxor Restaurant in the Roman Diocletian Palace, World Heritage Site, Old town of Split, Split, Croatia

Army butchers, Aisne Front, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Army butchers, Aisne Front, between c1915 and 1918. Army butchers with a hanging carcass on the Aisne, (France) front during World War I

Making army cooks, Pratt Institute, 9 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Making army cooks, Pratt Institute, 9 Aug 1917 (date created or published later). Woman teaching men how to cook for the U.S. Army at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

Canteen, 8th Coast Defense, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Canteen, 8th Coast Defense, between c1915 and 1918. Women serving food to American soldiers of the 8th Coast defense probably in New York State during World War I

Cooking class, Pratt Institute, Miss Hanks [i.e. Hannko], Miss Kierstead, 13 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Cooking class, Pratt Institute, Miss Hanks [i.e. Hannko], Miss Kierstead, 13 Aug 1917. Cooking class for men at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, with Miss Emma Hanko and Miss Gladys Kierstead

Gladys Kierstead, Emma Hanks [i.e. Hanko], 13 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Gladys Kierstead, Emma Hanks [i.e. Hanko], 13 Aug 1917. A cooking class for men at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York during World War I

Cooking, Pratt Institute, Miss Hanks [i.e. Hanko] & Miss Kierstead, 26 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Cooking, Pratt Institute, Miss Hanks [i.e. Hanko] & Miss Kierstead, 26 Aug 1917. Miss Emma Hanko and Miss Gladys Kierstead, assistant steward of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

Cooking, Pratt Institute, Misses Kierstead & Hanks, 13 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Cooking, Pratt Institute, Misses Kierstead & Hanks, 13 Aug 1917. Miss Gladys Kierstead, assistant steward of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

Cooking class, Gladys Kierstead, 13 Aug 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Cooking class, Gladys Kierstead, 13 Aug 1917 (date created or published later). A cooking class for men at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York during World War I

Kaiserin's Hospital Train, kitchen, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Kaiserin's Hospital Train, kitchen, between c1914 and c1915. The kitchen on the hospital train of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, (wife of Wilhelm II of Germany), during World War I

Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Soldiers and women playing instruments in the Columbia University Gould Boathouse, 115th and Riverside Drive, New York City

Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Barnard Canteen, 1918 or 1919. Soldiers seated around a table in the Columbia University Gould Boathouse, 115th and Riverside Drive, New York City

[Barnard Canteen], 1918 or 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
[Barnard Canteen], 1918 or 1919. Women preparing food in the Columbia University Gould Boathouse, 115th and Riverside Drive, New York City

French Officers dining, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
French Officers dining, between c1914 and c1915. French officers eating outdoors near a haystack during World War I

German Kitchen taken by French, 29 Oct 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
German Kitchen taken by French, 29 Oct 1914 (date created or published later). A horse-drawn German field kitchen at Compie`gne, France

peaked tent roofs
Stephan Rückert

The Empire Rooms, Tottenham Court Road, London, arranged for a Dinner Dance (b / w photo)
5991456 The Empire Rooms, Tottenham Court Road, London, arranged for a Dinner Dance (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Empire Rooms)

Comic postcard, Soldiers in the British Army, WW2 - is it tea, or is it soup? Date: circa 1940s

Advert, W & G Buszard, Wedding Cakes
Advert for W & G Buszard, Oxford Street, London, makers of Wedding Cakes. 1897

Bovril drinking film scene, In Which We Serve, WW2
Bovril drinking film scene, In Which We Serve (directed by Noel Coward and David Lean, 1942), showing soldiers rescued from Dunkirk on the bridge of a destroyer with mugs of hot Bovril rather heavily

Bovril and Pemmican products, WW2
Bovril and Pemmican products, together with oatmeal, meat and tea, supplied in ration packs during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Cook Proficiency Badge for Scouts - Baking a Twist, 1929 (colour litho)
472985 Cook Proficiency Badge for Scouts - Baking a Twist, 1929 (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Mr. Harold Young, Director and Chief Catering Executive at Lyon s. 1st February 1966

Harold Young, Lyons Director and Chief Catering Executive, gets down to what arrives to the customer on a plate, He is discussing the meal with Chef Marcel Camus, Technology Kitchen Chef

Chef preparing the evening meal at the Seighford Hall Hotel Circa June 1974

Sir John Hall, property developer (knighted 1991) and life president and former chairman of Newcastle United football club (1992 to 1997), pictured at Wynyard Hall Estate, County Durham

Scenes at Cafe Bleu restaurant in Soho, London. Musicians playing to customers seated at their tables. 1st November 1951

Sean Connery, the rest of the cast and crew of the movie "Offence"
Sean Connery, the rest of the cast and crew of the movie " Offence" have a drink during a break in filming in Bracknell. 6th April 1972

Dining in style... retiring dinner lady Mrs Edna Maloney gets the VIP treatment during her last lunch hour at Berry Brow Infants and Nursery School

Stan Thomas (left), of Peters Food Service, (a Bedwas based baker and supplier of pies, pasties, slices and sausage rolls) and the boxer Eddie Thomas

Pupils at the Sidney Stringer school, Coventry seen here enjoying their school dinner. 2nd October 1978

Waitress / woman seen here preparing pots of tea in a cafe. 1957 A17b-002
Waitress/woman seen here preparing pots of tea in a cafe. 1957 A17b-002

Cordon Bleu Chef Luis Huber pictured in the kitchen of his roadside Cafe " Knight Of The Road" at Durdry, Nr. Bridgewater. January 1975 75-00237-007

A corridor brake composite carriage converted into a rail mobile emergency canteen, 1941
In November 1941 this 56 feet corridor brake composite carriage was converted at Swindon Works into a rail mobile emergency canteen

Douglas DC-6
Lady Passenger Wearing Hats Eating and Drinking in the First-Class Cabin of an American Airlines Dc-6 with a Stewardess Talking to a Businessman Behind Date: 1947

Waterfront restaurant, Klima, Milos Island, Cyclades Islands

Traditional Greek taverna, Heronissos, Sifnos Island, Cyclades Islands, Greece

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"Catering: A Journey Through Time and Taste" Step into the world as we explore its rich history and diverse culinary experiences. From the kitchens of The Royal Logistic Corps to chefs enjoying lunch at Sherrys restaurant in New York back in 1902, this captivating journey will leave you hungry for more. Delve into the past with a silver gelatin print capturing the camaraderie of chefs, their aprons stained with creativity and passion. Witness the bustling galley aboard Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin in 1933, where meals were prepared amidst floating clouds. Travel to Berlin's Adlon Hotel, where a vibrant bar scene unfolded against a backdrop of elegance and sophistication. Venture to Soho, London - from Greek Street's tantalizing flavors at numbers 2 and 3 to number 18's hidden gem that promises culinary delights beyond imagination. Explore Cafe Port d Andratx in Mallorca, Spain; here, European charm meets Mediterranean cuisine as plates are adorned with sunshine-infused ingredients. Continue your gastronomic adventure through Soho's Great Windmill Street W1, where every bite tells a story worth savoring. Peek behind closed doors into hotel kitchens buzzing with activity – an orchestra of pots clanging together harmoniously. Immerse yourself in history as you step foot inside Reedham Orphanage's dining hall in Purley, Surrey. Here, nourishment was not only provided but also served with love and care during times when comfort meant everything. Finally, witness how even patriotism found its place on menus during World War II through Bovril advertisements that warmed hearts alongside bellies. Catering is more than just food; it is an art form that transcends time and space. Join us on this extraordinary voyage filled with flavors both familiar and exotic – reminding us that no matter where we come from or what challenges we face collectively or individually – good food has the power to bring us together.