One photograph titled 'An Early Christmas Dinner - From the 19th Century'. Full caption on back. The photograph shows four tinned food products due to be opened at the British Food Manufacturing Industries Research Association Laboratories.

The tins pictured, from left, are described as; a Christmas pudding, dated 1900; a plum pudding, dated 1823, from HMS Fury's voyage to find the North West passage; roast mutton, dated 1849, from HMS Victory's mission to locate the lost explorer Sir John Franklin, and a block of chocolate canned in 1915 for the Gallipoli campaign.