Cubs/brownies/ scouts et al

kingdowieonthewall said:
definatly no health & safety for either of us, at cubs then.
I remember the group being taken on some long trek, no water / drinks all day & let loose to climb trees while the adults sat & smoked.
happy days 😀
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Sounds like the adventure playground at Crystal Palace park which SAS trainers would have avoided as a bit too risky. The air was alive with the sound of snapping collar bones, arms and legs and skulls hitting hard surfaces from great heights.
 
Teddy Eagle said:
Sounds like the adventure playground at Crystal Palace park which SAS trainers would have avoided as a bit too risky. The air was alive with the sound of snapping collar bones, arms and legs and skulls hitting hard surfaces from great heights.
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i remember that.
inspired by hieronymus bosch.
pre-mad max.
bet a few adults came a cropper on that also.

I think it was shirley hills we were marched to, from Addiscombe.
got home & filled the kitchen sink bowl with water to drink.
another time we went to a museum in various cub leaders cars & a kid spewed all over my legs in shorts.
stank of vom all day. (basterd)
 
mr. apollo said:
10th Penge and Beckenham me, loved the weekends at Frylands wood.
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Gosh, Frylands Wood. 11th Mitcham for me Cubs, Scouts & Venture Scouts. Every Sunday 5-/- Red Rover, go up town, in uniform used to have a sheath knife on my belt(also had branding on it from various camps id been to). 1st stop, Baden Powell House in south Ken' go all over central London, west end, then as evening came, wizz round Knightsbridge playing 'knock-down-ginger' on the posh houses, then home for tea. Fun times.
 
I was in 3rd welling jubilee in late 80's and we used to win everything (mainly cos we had so many more cubs than everyone else).

One day we turned up and our 3 leaders had been replaced. Turns out that our akela was being investigated for touching up some of the boys. Found out 25 years later that he spent time behind bars for being a paedo and he groomed his best friend's son, who sadly commited suicide.
 
Can’t remember the name of the group, but I used to be a cub in a group up Plaistow Lane in Bromley back in the 70’s
I hated it, but I was forced to go by my dad because it was a night my mum was at work and I found out in later life my dad wanted to go round and doink his 20 years his junior girlfriend.
I hated it because it was where all the spotty geeks and nurds went. Trouble is what I hated is that I actually fit in quite well 🤓🤣
 
Eagleman13 said:
Gosh, Frylands Wood. 11th Mitcham for me Cubs, Scouts & Venture Scouts. Every Sunday 5-/- Red Rover, go up town, in uniform used to have a sheath knife on my belt(also had branding on it from various camps id been to). 1st stop, Baden Powell House in south Ken' go all over central London, west end, then as evening came, wizz round Knightsbridge playing 'knock-down-ginger' on the posh houses, then home for tea. Fun times.
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ah yes , the 'knock down ginger' badge , almost as coveted as the 'seeing old people across the street'
badge & ' first aid' (basically mummifying another kid in swathes of bandage)
🙂
 
Anyone on here part of the Boys Brigade? If so thank you for the discordant free form jazz renditions you marched about belting out on Sunday mornings.
It's a shame bob-a-job week went away. Parliament could have benefitted from that.
 
Teddy Eagle said:
Anyone on here part of the Boys Brigade? If so thank you for the discordant free form jazz renditions you marched about belting out on Sunday mornings.
It's a shame bob-a-job week went away. Parliament could have benefitted from that.
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Yep
Sure & Steadfast.
Caterham Valley Company. Would have been late 60’s.
Principal reason for joining was that we got to shoot air rifles.
Also learned to play the bugle (very badly)
Happy days.
 
5th Wallington. Late 50s, early 60s.

Oh yes, bob a job week, slave labour, but, you know what, I think it taught me the value of earning a crust. One job I remember was the lady who got me cleaning carpets with an old carpet beater. She'd hung the carpets very her clothes line.

Summer camp in Hampshire, travelling in the back of a removal van sitting on all the camping equipment and leaning on the rear panel singing and waving to passing motorists. Visiting HMS Victory in Portsmouth was a highlight.
 
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