EASTER, 1937, the last weekend of March, the first holiday of the year. People were determined to make the most of it, especially as the weather had been awful - “severe and trying”, in the words of this newspaper - since the year began.
Extra trains were laid on between Glasgow and London, the Clyde resorts, Ayrshire, Edinburgh, Peebles, Inverness, Dundee and Aberdeen. “Many of those who leave the city at Easter week-end invariably combine a certain amount of business with their pleasure,” the Glasgow Herald said on the Saturday. “They take the opportunity of visiting those places which they are considering for their summer holiday and choose their apartments. Buses, steamers and aeroplanes are also carrying a considerable amount of traffic.” That very forenoon, Glasgow’s rail and bus stations were thronged with “fresh relays of business men and women, ‘off the chain’ for a few days.”
The local fairs did good business that weekend: the Chairoplanes at Shawfield Park (right) were popular. Theatres and cinemas were busy, too.
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In Edinburgh on Good Friday, with many businesses closed, people took to the golf course, or went hiking or clambered onto their bicycles. Loch Lomond saw heavy road traffic, and hikers were out in force.
Not everyone was happy, though. A Herald Diary item reported: “Some alarm has been expressed by Edinburgh humanitarians this Easter at the number of fluffy ducklings, apparently killed and stuffed when only a few days old, that have been on sale in confectioners’ shops alongside the traditional white rabbit and the decorated egg.” A reader who had been out East, however, informed the Diary that the ‘ducklings’ had actually been made in Japan from cardboard and imitation down.
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