IIRC the Drayton canteen was closed for an hour for "cleaning".
0100-0200. An old bloke called Charlie would chuck us out...
One of the toast butterers became an ATCO...
A mate who was a Trident jock occasionally used to ask me over to join him for lunch in the BEA canteen in QB whilst he was on airport standby. So I did. Linen tablecloths and silver service...us air traffickers were normally used to legging it over 6 lanes of frenetic traffic to spend our LVs at Harry Ramsden's...the challenge was not to open the box until we got back to the rest room...or back on GMC...