Sheffield Retro: 17 beautiful photos to bring back fond memories of school dinners in Sheffield

Picture gallery brings back memories of school dinners in Sheffield with photos from the 1950s through to the 2010s

We have taken a trip down memory lane - to bring back the sights of school meals at Sheffield over the last 70 years.

School meals may have divided opinions among youngsters over the years, but there is nothing more likely to being back memories than some of those items that were on the menu.

Some loved them, some hated them - some took packed lunches instead, but even they will recognise the old dining rooms in these pictures.

Our gallery has included 17 pictures showing the school dining rooms that we are in over the years, at some of the city’s best known schools.

And the photos what we used taken you all the way back to the 1950s, taken in black and white, with the most recent in our collection taken more recently, in the 2010s. These more recent pictures are in colour.

Some of them show some of those popular of foods that were on the menus all those years ago.

Take a look at the pictures below and see what memories they bring back for you.

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