A GREAT WELCOME
KING AND QUEEN VISIT MANCHESTER
(UntLs!) Offlda! Wireless.) (Received February 14, 2 p.nx)
RUGBY, February ,13.
The King and Queen paid a visit to Manchester. Although it ''was kept a closely-guarded secret, news of their arrival quickly spread through the city, and great crowds to the streets along which their Majesties drove. So great we're the crowds that the police in places had to erect wooden "crush" barriers.
Wherever they went a wonderful welcome greeted their Majesties, who, in a three and a half hour tour of the city and suburbs, left their car many times to inspect damage caused to residential property and commercial buildings in the heavy raids before Christmas.
Their Majesties inspected a parade of civil defence workers and spoke to many of the • workers. One woman ambulance driver who was asked by the Queen how she got on during a raid replied: "Madame, I was there for thirteen hours, and I wouldn't have missed it for worlds."
Mr. Herbert' Morrison, Home Secretary, accompanied their Majesties on the tour of the city.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 8
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178A GREAT WELCOME Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 8
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