Kirklevington prison

Stocko said:
I wouldn’t be eating or drinking anything that prisoners have prepared 🤢
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Why? Extremely likely that you’ve had a meal at some point prepared by an ex prisoner without knowing. Doubt being in prison means someone can’t prepare a meal
 
Rock Osborne said:
Just a shout out to the cafe at Kirklevington prison. 1st visit since covid, again quality food, service and value. Keep up the good work lads.
Well worth a try fellow posters
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Please don't take this as a sleight on the cafe or the quality of it's food, it's just that it reminded me of a funny
experience that I had when I was a young apprentice butcher at tech many years ago.

As you can probably imagine, the quality of the meat that us young apprentices were working with whilst at college
was of very poor quality that was destined for the local prison after we had finished, literally, butchering it.

Back in the day we used to have sawdust on the floors and one day a young lad dropped an entire hind quarter of beef
on the floor which was then now covered in sawdust.
He froze for a moment with his mouth wide open and then attempted to lift the slimy leg which only succeeded in covering
it with even more sawdust as it was sliding across the floor.
A few guys came to his aid and helped him lift it onto the butchers block. He looked towards the teacher and offered his
apologies as he was unsuccessfully attempting to scrape the sawdust off with his knife.

In typical Aussie fashion, the teacher replied with " don't worry about it mate, we'll breadcrumb that, the prisoners
will never notice the difference" 🤣.

Well, we all thought it funny at the time.
I guess I still do, even after fifty odd years. :D
 
Been to the cafe a couple of times and it does have decent menu at reasonable prices, there is a craft shop next door to it that sells garden sundries, we bought a cracking hedgehog house from there.
 
JM14 said:
Why? Extremely likely that you’ve had a meal at some point prepared by an ex prisoner without knowing. Doubt being in prison means someone can’t prepare a meal
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I had plantain for the 1st time and some really good jerk chicken cooked by a prisoner when I worked in the nick.
 
I used to go in there to play volleyball against the inmate team. Never once felt intimidated. We used to play against Holme House too, that was always slightly scarier!
 
Norman_Conquest said:
We played a North Riding game there once, my dad said to me before I went "make sure you don't swap shirts at the end of the game". :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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Kirklevington FC,not an inmates team used to play their home games in the prison grounds in the late seventies, pretty sure the pitch was in a secure area near to the main gates.
 
weststandwally said:
Kirklevington FC,not an inmates team used to play their home games in the prison grounds in the late seventies, pretty sure the pitch was in a secure area near to the main gates.
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I think that is who we played. We got to the pitch along the side road and to the rear of the prison and the pitch was surrounded by high fencing. Yatta Reed (RIP) had just come out of there that week and his game for us what at the prison.

I also played once for a team in Brompton (a very good friend lived there and I was staying at his house for the weekend) and we played a team from the Northallerton Young Offenders Prison. We played the game near Brompton but there must have been eight wardens accompanying the team.
 
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