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Sep 17, 2021 · Dinner money was collected every Monday for the week, a shilling a day in the late 1950s rising to 1s 6d in the mid 1960s. Free school meals were available to those in need. Photograph by kind permission of Friends Reconnected
- Britain in The 1950S and 1960S
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- Britain in The 1950S and 1960S
The cost of providing free school meals soon became apparent though, and parents began to shoulder much of the burden, with some reprieve for those families on lower incomes.
Jan 4, 2020 · If you had school dinners there was one choice. You ate what you were given. One main course (dinner), one dessert (pudding). No alternatives and you absolutely had to eat what was put on your plate. I think this is why so many people of my age in Britain have bad memories of school dinners.
Mar 11, 2009 · This review details the history of school meals in the UK, from their origin in the mid-19th Century, to the present day, and provides a summary of how each country has independently developed its own food and or nutrient-based standards for school meals.
- C. E. L. Evans, C. E. Harper
- 2009
From 1907, when they began, school meals had to meet certain nutritional standards. These were abolished in 1981: kitchens could serve up what they liked provided it made money; children could...
School dinners were designed to be nutritious and cheap, but with enjoyability considered irrelevant during WW2 and the years afterwards. This page describes the meals and the meal breaks in all weathers, and how they were managed at one fairly typical school. A glimpse into the history of everyday life.
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Apr 4, 2023 · In fact, 1.9 million children (22.5% of all school-age children in England) were eligible for free school lunches in 2022 – up from 17.3% in 2020. Free school meals have long been used as a ...
