"A cup of coffee and a doughnut or sandwich - all in the room."

Well, we used to have a lady come round, a canteen lady, didn’t we? she used to come from the canteen with a trolley, full of different things…
Sticky buns.
Cheese rolls, sausages – like hotdog sausages – and things like that. She came round to where we were working, stitching in the departments, and she came in didn’t she?
With her trolley.
Then they got rid of her after a time and they had vending machines.
_{[Fran and Caroline, Morlands]}

We used to have tea breaks when Maud used to come trundling up into the room with her tea trolley and we’d all be buying cakes and buns and a cup of tea.
_{[Rosemary, Morlands]}

I mean most people then seemed to bring their own lunch, you know you’d bring your sandwiches and a flask of coffee. But the canteen was OK, and it was very reasonable. I think it was subsidised.
_{[Wendy M, Morlands]}

You had to start at eight and there was a break at about ten, I think. The tea trolley used to come around and the canteen ladies used to make with ham rolls and all sorts of things. It was actually pretty good quality. They’d go round all the departments. You’d stop at one ‘till two and then finish at five.
_{[Tim, Morlands]}

The canteen was the only time you saw some of the people because you never really saw them otherwise.
_{[Shirley, Baily’s]}

It wasn’t unusual to nip to the pub at lunchtime because you had an hour so you could get to the Street Inn and back quite easily! But that was not unusual. And a lot of the sales manager guys used to go out for lunch and I think liver and onions was fifty five pence.
_{[Tim, Morlands]}

You got a free lunch if you were salaried staff, a free sandwich, remember that? Which you could go and pick up from the canteen downstairs. So I used to go pick up my free roll, because I was salaried staff. You got a free roll.
_{[Jackie, Morlands and Baily’s]}

When you went for your break or lunch at the canteen, those that worked in the factory sat in one part and the office workers sat in another part. I’ve never understood why – I was no better than anyone working on the factory floor and they were no worse than me just because I was working in an office.
_{[Julia, Morlands]}