Billys, Dans and Cossacks

The years after World War One were difficult ones for the city of Glasgow. War production was scaled down and factories, shipyards and munitions plants laid off many workers. Men returned from military service to find work scarce and social conditions often appalling. By 1932 over 20% of British workers were unemployed. This at a time when social security was in its infancy and those without work were barely given enough to live on...