Dining Hall.

One of my fondest memories of Linton was the food.
Boy, it was good, and it was three meals a day.
THREE COOKED MEALS A DAY!!
And a supper! Cocoa, and bread and dripping.
Favorite dish, you ask?
Well it just had to be breakfast time, and Egg Fritters.
They were absolutely gorgeous. Sadly I have never been able to replicate them. I tackled Jess Robson on this when I saw here last (Miss Suttle to some), and she says it was just bread soaked in beaten egg and fried. Well I have tried every permutation on this recipe, never actually achieving the same result. One chap on our table used to spread marmalade on his fritters, the ninny.
You can’t imagine the noise that would reverberate around this room when grub was served. We had I think 2 sittings, juniors and seniors. The staff had little rooms at either end of the building where they ate, had coffee and inveriably smoked ciggies.
We had monitors whose job it was to collect the grub in big metal serving trays, then bring back to the table of around 6 kids and serve out. Plum job this was, as whoever had the role, got to pick and choose. We had a "Bursar" who looked after the kitchen and the staff, some of who lived in, one block, above the boy’s ablutions was a dedicated accommodation block for various domestics. Others would be local people. I guess the school would have been a large employer of local people in its heyday.