Oven Collection (#25)

ATS - using a brick field oven in training, 1939
Female ATS workers in training, learning to cook using field equipment in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939

Senegal - Food Preparation
Preparation of butter and the cooking and grinding of nuts in a Senegalese village Date: circa 1910s

Gasworks furnace
The gasworks of Landskrona 1910. Date: 1910

Camel Caravan
A camel caravan in Oman - only in the heart of the Arabian Gulf do the caravan bells still sound regularly. The huge, noble camels stride in peace among oven-hot rocks. Date: 1930s

Advert for Esse cookers
In the first place The Esse looks makes a contented cook.... One... her cooking is better than ever before. Two.... no smoke, fumes, soot, grime, blackleading. Three... clean kitchen. ect 1937

Stove 1900
Wood stove, manufactured by Landskrona Foundry, 1900 Date: 1900

Advert for Esse cookers 1938
From beginning to end of every day, a happier cook in every way! From a cheerful beginning in a warm kitchen to a happy ending in front of the fire

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers
One of the Main models will meet your needs! Advertisement for Main cookers for smaller kitchens. 1939

Fish Cookery Class
Ladies in fur coats watching a cookery class, possibly for television, where the cook is demonstrating the art of oven fried fish! Date: 1960s

Freshly Baked Loaves
A housewife takes her two freshly home baked loaves, one white and one wholemeal. from a hot oven. Date: 1940s

Cleaning Kitchen Floor
An ingenious housewife saves her back by cleaning her kitchen floor with a cloth and a sweeping brush. Date: 1940s

She made them some broth
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children... She made them some broth -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme, showing the old woman in her kitchen

Redring advertisement, c. 1955
Advertisement for Redring Metrovick Boiling Plates manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company of Old Trafford, Manchester, showing a jubilant housewife delighted with her new cooker

Female Blacksmith
A German woman blacksmith heating her irons in the furnace. Date: early 1930s

Advert for the Radiation New World Gas Cooker
Radiation porcelain enamelled New World Gas Cooker. Date: 1933

Dumped microwave oven and tangled car wreckage in woodland, Marsham Woods, Norfolk, England, november

HOME APPLIANCE AD. Hughes Electric Range advertisement of 1927, from an American magazine

MEMS production, chemical etching
MODEL RELEASED. MEMS production. Clean room technicians using chemical etching processes to produce MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) devices

Autoclave oven. Time-exposure image of gloved hands opening an autoclave oven. The oven uses high pressure steam to sterilize medical instruments and equipment

Chicken in an oven, thermogram
Chicken in an oven. Thermogram of a chicken cooking in an oven. The colours show variation in temperature. The scale runs from white (warmest) through red, yellow, green and blue to purple (coldest)

Medical purging, satirical artwork
Medical purging. Satirical artwork showing a physician (in robes) and his assistant purging patients. Follies and fantasies are purged in a cloud (upper right) using an oven to bake the head

Canning kitchen, 19th century artwork. Here, the food was cooked before being sealed in cans. The process of canning was a method of food preservation developed in the early 19th century for

Coke-making ovens being maintained by a worker. Coke is used in smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. Photographed at the Chelyabinsk metallurgical plant, Russia

SILENT FILM STILL. Billie Dove

OVER THE HILL, 1920. Mary Carr in a scene from the film

SILENT FILM STILL. Viola Dana in a scene from Cinderellas Twin, 1920

Traditional wood-burning clay oven, Nepal, Asia

Freshly-baked bread in a traditional communal clay oven in the town of Merzouga, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Interior of kitchen, Strangeways Prison, Manchester
The interior of a prison kitchen, believed to be at Strangeways Prison, Manchester. The room is filled with assorted boilers, coppers, ovens and cooking hobs. Much of the cooking was done using steam

A Jersey Kitchen
A Jersey cottage kitchen, complete with copper pans on the fireplace range, a well-stocker dresser and curtained mantlepiece

Cooking street food - Tunis, Tunisia
Cooking and selling street food in Tunis, Tunisia

A Spooner Travelling oven
A immense Spooner Travelling Oven - with the dough for loaves of white bread entering the immense baking oven section of the machine

Kitchen of the Commercial Religious Institute, Istanbul
Kitchen of the Commercial Religious Institute - Establishment of the Brothers at Kadikoy, Constantinople

Baking Flatbreads at Elisabetpol, Azerbaijan
Baking Flatbreads at Gjandzja (Elisabetpol), Western Azerbaijan

Gas advertisement 1954
Advertisement by the Gas Industry promoting the use of coal-fired gas as fuel for gas cookers in the 1950s home. To drive home the point

Making Pastry
Pastry is rolled out on the sideboard, then once cooked, the maid is shown removing the pie from the oven, and then once again with plates piled up high, ready for serving

Mavers Picnic Furnace Ad
Advertisement for Mavers Picnic Furnace. The handiest, safest & most useful article yet invented for Picnic Parties. Date: June 1931

Stone fragments in the bakery of an archaeological laborator

Cottage Life in Warwickshire: Baking Day
Illustration from 1872 showing a scene in a Warwickshire village with women baking bread. Small rural communities would often have only one bread oven which would be fired up on specific days to bake

Social / Canada Oven 19C
French-Canadian woman puts bread dough into an outdoor oven on a farm

Suggestions for the homes of tomorrow: High frequency cooker
Photograph of a woman demonstrating the cooker of the future, in which the high frequency waves cook right through the food. The invention was a forerunner of the microwave oven, commonly in use today

Sugar Fill-House
Sugar is normally sold in the form of large loaves, shaped like dunces caps : these are prepared in the fill-house before baking in the oven

SUGAR OVEN
Household sugar is normally sold in the form of large loaves, shaped like dunces caps : these are prepared in the fill-house then baked in the oven

Cooking Supper
Hey good looking, what you got cooking? A glamorous, happy housewife gets her casserole out of the kitchen oven

A HOT OVEN
A boy watches as his mother takes a hot dish from the oven

Pueblo Women Make Bread
Women of the Acoma people of New Mexico bake their bread in a communal outdoor oven shared by a number of families

Putting Dinner On
A housewife pops dinner in the oven

Cooking Dinner
A little girl helps her mum prepare food in the kitchen

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"From Regatta to Carnival Week: The Evolution of the Oven" Step back in time to August 1993, where the aroma of freshly baked goods wafted through the air at Fowey, Cornwall. As a bustling regatta took place, locals and visitors alike gathered around ovens, eager to indulge in delectable treats. Travel further back into history, all the way to the 1800s in a British glass factory. Skilled artisans blew molten glass with precision and finesse near roaring ovens that illuminated their craft. Their creations would later adorn elegant homes across the country. Fast forward to post-war London in 1947, where a dedicated chef worked tirelessly in a bustling kitchen. Amidst rationing and scarcity, this culinary maestro relied on his trusty oven to create mouthwatering dishes that brought comfort and joy during challenging times. In Brighton Pavilion's esteemed kitchens, A. H. Cadier – senior chef extraordinaire – found himself amidst an amusing mishap as mischievous juniors handed him fake chickens instead of real ones. Yet even amidst laughter-filled chaos, Cadier's oven remained steadfast as he continued crafting exquisite meals fit for royalty. Journey back once more to Britain's industrial revolution era; hardworking men labored diligently inside glass factories while surrounded by fiery furnaces and colossal ovens. These unsung heroes played pivotal roles in shaping our world through their craftsmanship. Triplex Grates/Ranges brochure cover invites you into a world where cutting-edge technology met culinary excellence. This advertisement showcased state-of-the-art ovens designed for modern households seeking convenience without compromising taste or quality. Venturing beyond borders brings us southwards towards Mexico circa 1850 when two women skillfully maneuvered pots over open fire communal ovens within their vibrant kitchen setting—a testament to cultural traditions passed down from generation to generation.