FROM 1870 - 1914 > FOOD & COOKING               1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40               Gas Ring By the end of the 19th century many of the working class terraced houses had gas rings just like this one. Its main use was to boil a ...     Cooking Range By the end of the 19th century many middle class families had fitted a range in their kitchen. Made from cast iron the ranges allowed ...     Butcher’s Shop This great display of meat is hanging outside a butcher’s shop in the village of Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone. The photograph was taken a ...     Meat safe A meat safe was attached to the back wall of a house outside the kitchen. Before the widespread use of refrigerators, meat safes were ...     Slatted Press Food was often stored on hooks which hung from ceilings or on batons which were nailed to the underside of the timber joists of the ...     Gas Cooker Better off families could afford this type of gas cooker. They were becoming popular by 1900.     Grocery Shop Better off families in large towns had the choice of a much greater variety of food in their grocer’s shop. Lipton’s Market had outlets ...     Weights and Measures Every shop had this type of weigh scale because most of the items sold had to be weighed. Flour, tea, sugar and tobacco were just some ...     Jacob’s Biscuits Jacob’s had a big biscuit factory in Dublin. One of their most famous products, the cream cracker, went on sale in the 1880s. Later ...     Liptons Teas Tea was a universal drink all over Ireland by the end of the 19th century. It was now cheaper to buy and was easily available so it was ...     <>             1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40