History

From what I can remember, those having school dinners were first selected by year and form/house, then into two sittings. These would alternate each week. There was on average 50 tables. Sometimes the staff got thing wrong, and there wasn't enough places. You usually had the same table number all through the school year.

There was always a teacher or prefect at your dinner table to see fair play with the gravy. 8 sat around the table, with 2 to fetch the dinner, two to clear the dinner while another two fetch the pudding, the same two clearing away, and one to wipe the table. That left the teacher or prefect who did sod all!

Fave School Dinners?

Most, if not all of the puddings and some of the dinners, came from those battered steel tins and cut into 8 portions.

Main meal

Shepherds Pie.. from these tins...

Chips but only once in a blue moon.

Puddings

Black/ brown tart with white sauce .....Yak

Iced sponge cake with lime green source.

Anything with custard... complete with thick skin.....

What was yours?