Ancoats Hospital to be precise. This is the kitchen in 1913 showing the kitchen staff. The collection to which this picture belongs was donated by a nursing officer who worked at the Hospital. Traditionally the group of servants employed in the kitchen was called the 'kitchenry' or 'kitchenee'.

‘Pugh’s Pure Ices’ pays a visit. The donor of this collection lived in the house in the photograph. Traditionally, ice cream had been the preserve of the rich. However, in the later nineteenth century the invention of refrigerators and iceboxes ensured that this became a mass treat. Ice cream could be made at home or bought from vendors such as the one pictured. These commercial ice creams were sometimes called 'penny licks'.

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M Levy’s Kosher Restaurant woos diners in a theatre programme. For anyone other than the richest women in society, women did not traditionally eat out in public. Furthermore, the only place of most men to dine out was the chop house. HOwever, this all changed in the 1830s when the first restaurants opened in the UK in London. However, until the 1870s it was considered very inappropriate behaviour for a lady to be seen frequenting public dining rooms.

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This one was at Tenth Street in Trafford Park, around 1934. The heart of a kitchen has always been the hearth for the cooking. In the mid-nineteenth century hearths began to be replaced with cookers. Gas cookers were feasible from the first half of the nineteenth century. However, people feared that food would become impregnated with noxious fumes from the burning gas. For this reason, along with other more practical considerations, not until the 1870s onwards did domestic gas cookers gain public acceptance.

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This picture from the late 1930s shows ladies in the canteen at Elm Mill in Lees. The origin of the word 'canteen' is obscure. However, it may have been derived from the Italian word 'cantina', meaning cellar or cave.