EVERY sightseeing vantage point in Bath Street, Glasgow, was occupied when the Prince of Wales visited on March 29, 1933. A large crowd cheered him as he entered the offices of the City of Glasgow Society of Social Services. When he left, one young man voiced the sentiments of them all when he called out: “Good luck tae ye, Prince o’ Wales.”
The Prince was beginning a three-day tour of Scotland’s industrial belt, with engagements from Clydebank to Dundee and Fife. The visit, said the Glasgow Herald, was undertaken “to show his sympathy with the movement to promote mutual service work and to provide facilities for social recreation among the unemployed. His Royal Highness has previously demonstrated his interest in this beneficent activity by visits to English districts hard hit by the industrial depression. The visit was of a kind that brought the Prince close to the citizen democracy. He was everywhere enthusiastically received ...”
The Prince visited allotments, a YMCA and a Boys’ Brigade headquarters, as well as Cowdenbeath, Burntisland, Kirkcaldy, Leven and Cupar. In Dundee he made a speech, calling for further enterprise and co-operation. “It is not big and expensive schemes that are needed,” he said, “but a greater number of small schemes, like those I have been seeing, which depend chiefly on the initiative of a few keen people.”
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