School cutlery

grumpybloke · Post by **grumpybloke** » Fri 17 Jun, 2011 12:58 am

When I partook of school dinners in the 60's the cutlery was stamped "LCB".(I am assuming that it was the same in all schools). We never could work out what it stood for......does anyone know?

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Fri 17 Jun, 2011 1:50 am

Leeds Cutlery Board

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Fri 17 Jun, 2011 10:16 am

I found an LCB spoon in my cutlery drawer this morning. Don't remember seeing it before. Spooky!

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Fri 17 Jun, 2011 3:27 pm

Google LCB and cutlery and you get hits for high quality german LCB cutlery - where LCB stands for Le Cordon Bleu!I don't remember anything about school dinners which could be described as cordon bleu.

grumpybloke · Post by **grumpybloke** » Fri 17 Jun, 2011 4:30 pm

zip55 wrote: Leeds Cutlery Board I know that local government likes bureaucracy but maybe a dedicated cutlery board is too much for even them!

grumpybloke · Post by **grumpybloke** » Fri 17 Jun, 2011 4:32 pm

blackprince wrote: Google LCB and cutlery and you get hits for high quality german LCB cutlery - where LCB stands for Le Cordon Bleu!I don't remember anything about school dinners which could be described as cordon bleu. This was stamped on the upperside of the cutlery and not discreetly on the underside like a maker's mark. We always thought it must mean "Leeds City ?????"

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Fri 17 Jun, 2011 11:58 pm

LCB could be what it is made of. Just a thought.

simong · Post by **simong** » Sat 18 Jun, 2011 1:37 am

I can remember school cutlery with W.R.C.C. on it in Doncaster but I suspect that wouldn't be the case in Leeds - could it be the local precursor of the YPO?

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Sat 18 Jun, 2011 10:59 am

simong wrote: I can remember school cutlery with W.R.C.C. on it in Doncaster but I suspect that wouldn't be the case in Leeds - could it be the local precursor of the YPO? Perhaps,Leeds Catering Board?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 18 Jun, 2011 12:06 pm

I wonder if the LCB could stand for Leeds County Borough, which was the name for Leeds until 1974 (though I think it was more correctly the County Borough of Leeds) when it became the City and Metropolitan Borough of Leeds.