LETTER OF THE MONTH
Midday meals
really enjoyed the article on British Restaurants (Eat for Victory, January). A lesser-known aspect is their role during the Second World War in providing a hot lunch service to schoolchildren.
By 1942 the local school in the village of Knowle, then in Warwickshire, was full to overflowing. It was accommodating not only local schoolchildren but also evacuees from Coventry and Birmingham as well as children from Czechoslovakian refugee households. There would have been very little room on the premises for preparing food. The British Restaurant in the nearby town of Solihull, opened in May, decided to hire a van to transport hot midday meals to schoolchildren in
