VISIT TO EAST END

Evening Star, Issue 22573, 15 February 1937, Page 9

VISIT TO EAST END

THEIR MAJESTIES’ FIRST JOINT ENGAGEMENT CHEERING CROWDS LINE STREETS PreM Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 13. For the first time since their accession their Majesties carried out a joint engagement when they visited the East End to open tho new People’s Palace. The opening should have been carried out by the Duke of Windsor, but it was delayed owing to the impending abdication. Cheering crowds lined the route from Piccadilly to the borough of Poplar. The East End streets were decorated with streamers and bunting and Coronation emblems. Children were especially well placed, all wearing favours of the national colours. There were many shouts of “ God save their Majesties,” the King, in morning dress, responding by saluting and waving his hat, and the Queen smiling. At one stage the East Enders swept away the police cordon and stopped the car’s progress. The people surrounded the vehicle, pressing their faces to the windows and cheering enthusiastically, their Majecties acknowledging smilingly. The King and Queen spent an hour inspecting the new palace and listened to a musical programme. They received the Mayors of Shoreditch, Hackney, Bethnal Green, and Stepney, with whom they discussed local problems.