This Bank Hol ed by many to be the greatest since the war. The pleasure resorts and seaside resorts were so crowde! that hundreds of people had sleep out, while to get the' people home on' Monday night taxed all the ingenuity of the transport authorities. At Southend, although the stations are four miles apart, the queues waiting for trains over-Tapped.
Once again we had the "litter" problem, and the general experience at holiday. places was that many people failed to take to heart the advice given them regarding litter. One bright spot was Ken Wood, Hampstead, which was a pattern of tidiness'to all Londoners, The same could not be said of Regent's Park, For about four miles along the Sea front at Brighton litter was left by the visitors, and dusk on Monday night an army of workmen was employed in remo ing it, It seems impossible to educate the public to be tidy. and suppose-the majority of people on a holiday are only too glad to get stratizely quiet. The great seven jon seem to have vanished as it were in the night, their place being taken by a paltry few hundred sightseers who saunter round the streets in an aimless sort of fashion, Moantime, Cowes, with the King and Queen' aboard the Victoria and Albert, has come Yn for most of the social limelight this week; lots of new yachting folk have arrived there to join in the racing or enjoy a quiet time in the little "town. Bank Holiday was, perhaps, even more reminiscent of pre-war bank holidays, since audiences at theatres, music-halls, and cinemas generally, for the first time for more than 11 years, were able to buy chocolates, cigarettes and ice-cream right up to the end of the performance.
This was the xesult of the Royal assent being on Friday to the Shops (Hours of Closing) Bill, which vesteres rights taken away by D.O.
a wartime measure, "It "joy_night," although many people were still unable to believe that they: could at Inst buy a packet of cigarettes openly instead of resorting to an automatic machine,
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