DURING 100 years of the Scouting movement, thousands of young boys in East Lancashire have, at some time, been prepared to take part in its activities.
They’ve camped, marched, built soap boxes, lit camp fires, tied knots and raised money in bob ‘a’ job week.
No doubt many readers will have their own memories of their days as a cub or scout — or indeed when they were a brownie and then a guide.
Looking Back has received these two photographs of young cub scouts in the Rossendale Valley in the fifties and sixties.
They’ve been sent to us from the archives of the 21st Rossendale Scouts by group scout leader Peter Terry.
The first photo (1) shows the Scout band on what looks to be a St George’s Day parade, probably in the 1960s.
The man in the cardigan, leading the youngsters is John Halliwell, who was then group scout leader.
Our second photo(2) looks to have been taken in the 1950s and shows a large group of cub scouts waiting to go on an event.
They are all wearing their belted gabardine coats over their uniforms and their polished shoes.
All seem to have some kind of box or plastic bag, probably containing a packed lunch.
Behind them is a double decked, Rawtenstall Corporation bus ready to whisk them off to their destination — maybe a day by the sea, or to a district scouting event somewhere?
*If you have any old pictures from your young days in the scout or guide movement, Looking Back would love to share them with other readers.
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