HEADMASTER
sat here
HARMONIUM
played and pedal-pumped
by the organist and music-teacher
Evelyn GREENHALGH decd
for singing practice
run by the often stentorian
Ken SUTTON decd
GREAT WAR
memorial dish




now in RLGC
through door
to teachers'
pigeon-holes,
SWEETS,
headmasters'
private rooms
extractor fan
HEAD BOYS
on a board here by 1958
NEVER any chips
until the end of the 1960s
lunch always with 2 veg and
boiled or mashed potatoes,
roast potatoes on Sunday
DISHES from the kitchen:
tomato slush on toast
baked beans on toast
spam (sliced processed pork/ham)
Gala pie (pork pie, boiled egg in middle)
fish-cakes (boney cotton-wool in breadcrumbs)
rissoles (like fish-cakes outside, brown inside)
tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce
scrambled egg (from powder)
fried bread (often sopping with oil)
bacon (with gristle and uncooked rind)
porridge (often lumpy, sometimes watery)
kippers for breakfast on Friday
SUNDAY SUPPER
until the end of the 1960s:
cold tinned pilchards on cold toast
bread, margarine, toenail jam (pineapple jam)
from the end of the 1960s:
chips, spam, salad, salad cream
PUDDINGS
granny's arm (suet roly-poly with jam filling)
spotted dick (suet roly-poly with currants and raisins)
Mersey Mud / Dee Mud (brown blancmanges)
frogspawn (tapioca pudding)
rice pudding
GARDEN PRODUCE
for summer supper you could add
vegetables from your own school garden
SCHOOL PHOTOS
round the walls, above the dado
 
Dining Hall (David Bevin / 1966 Prospectus)