Civic Week History

Researched by Liz Rae

March 2024

Source: Central Libraries Service, Dunfermline Library

Cowdenbeath Advertiser – 19^th August 1904

PICNIC

The West End PICNIC is now an established institution, and hundreds of children look forward to it as the joy of their holidays.  The turn out this year was larger than ever, the gay dresses and still gayer hats and umbrellas were a treat to see, they were a veritable blaze of colour.  Indeed the Procession looked more like some parade in the Land of the Rising Sun, celebrating the fall of Port Arthur.

The weather Clerk behaved very badly on Wednesday and again on Thursday when the programme of fun was finished, although the weather was damp, the children’s spirits were not easily damped.  The procession the first day was headed by a piper, and a gaily decorated donkey with two children slung in baskets on its back prepared the mass of spectators for the best procession of children that ever passed through the Burgh Streets.

---