• Skip to content
 
  • Log in
  • Contact us
Westland100 Years of History
The story of Yeovil's magnificent flying machines
  • Home
  • About
  • History of Westland
  • Topics
  • Contributors
  • Oral histories
  • Get involved
You are here: Home>Topics>Canteen

Canteen

  • Dave Calway worked in the blade department at Westland and remembers how good the meals were in the works canteen

    Dave Calway worked in the blade department at Westland and remembers how good the meals were in the works canteen

    https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Dave-Calway-food-at-work-canteen-clip.mp3
  • Paul Murley joined Westland as an Apprentice Engineer aged 15 yrs in 1945 and rose to the position of Engineering Services Manager completing 44 yrs service. He remembers the uproar when the company closed the very excellent works canteen and replaced it with self-service ready meals and microwave ovens

    Paul Murley joined Westland as an Apprentice Engineer aged 15 yrs in 1945 and rose to the position of Engineering Services Manager completing 44 yrs service. He remembers the uproar when the company closed the very excellent works canteen and replaced it with self-service ready meals and microwave ovens

    https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Paul-Murley-canteen-microwave-lunches.mp3
Topics
  • Trade unions
  • My working day
  • My first day
  • Westland Affair
  • Test pilots
  • Fun days
  • Women in the workplace
  • How I did my job
  • Aircraft types
  • World War 1: the beginning
  • The interwar and experimental age
  • World War 11: wartime production
  • 1950 to 2015
  • World Helicopter Speed Record
  • Canteen
  • Health and Safety
  • Wages
  • Computerisation
  • Hendford Halt
  • Progress chasers
  • VH 71 American Presidential Helicopter
  • Apprentices
  • Westland 'shadow' factories
  • Crash landings
  • Sport and leisure
  • Getting to work and leaving work
  • Staff and manual
  • Blade shop
  • Royal visits
  • Petter family
  • Harald Penrose
  • WG30
  • Falklands war
  • Diversification
  • No Joke Working at Westland
Radio Ninesprings (opens in new window) Heritage Lottery Fund (opens in new window) Yeovil College (opens in new window) Westland 1915-2015 (opens in new window)
  • Terms of use
  • Privacy and cookies
  • Accessibility
© Copyright Westland 100 Years of History. Website by CommunitySites