1st Porthill Scout Group have known Pat and Graham for many years, especially when they were both Assistant District Commissioners in both Burslem and Potteries Central Districts.

Many congratulations to you both!

Photos are now in the gallery.

For the second year the Drum Corps brought up the rear of the parade (hopefully they’ll be at the front next year!). This year was the first time the Cubs were included in a public performance. As usual everyone played extremely well!

More photos in the Gallery.

Basford and Madeley raced together and we had some Scouts from 1st Weston and Weston Point Scouts from Runcorn with us. Sixteen teams in total took part and both our District’s teams were in the final. In the final, Basford and Madeley came fourth and we came third!

Well done to all who took part. You can see more photos in the photo gallery.

Some of their performance can be seen on this video.

Well done to all the members of the Drum Corps – we’re very proud of you all!

When it was originally set up in 2005, the site had the list of the names that are on our War Memorial in St. Andrew’s Church with links to each man’s commemorative page on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s website. It actually took a while to locate all the men and it has only been in the last couple of months that the last one has been properly identified.

On the new site, you can see information about each of the men, such as where they lived, information about their parents and siblings, what jobs they had, their grave or memorial and in a few cases a photo of the man himself. There is also some information on our Memorial and the Porthill War Memorial.

In addition to the men on the Memorial, we have found one Scout who was killed in World War 2 and four more, from a list we have of our original Scouts from 1908, who were killed in The Great War (WW1). These men are now commemorated here as well.

It is especially poignant that we are relaunching the site today as it is exactly 94 years to the day that one of our Scouts, Harold Bailey, died of the wounds received in battle (25th March 1918). He died while fighting on the Somme with the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.

Please take a look at the site here.

If you have any more information on these men, please get in touch by clicking here.

The Winners with their prize – a cake!

We are very proud of you all.

The show consisted of sketches, magic and drumming from members of our drum corps.

One of the parents videoed a bit of the show and it can be seen below.

It was an enjoyable evening and well done to all who took part.

More photos can be seen in the Gallery.

The usual great time was had by all and the rain on the Saturday morning and the very cold wind didn’t spoil things!

The interesting thing about the campsite now is that they’ve had to remove all their rhododendron bushes due to disease. The camp is now quite open so looks rather different!

Where the bushes used to be!

More photos in the Gallery.

See our trip to London in 2003, the Family Evening in October 2003, the Scout’s camp at Kibblestone in July 2004 and the Scouts wide game at a wet Bradwell Woods in July 2009.

Go on take a look – are you on any of them?

While we were on the stage, one of our Scouts was awarded his Chief Scout’s Gold Award.

After which he got a huge round of applause from the rest of the Scouts sitting in the auditorium!

More photos can be seen here in the gallery.

Please note that Families having 2 or more children in the group pay  £23 per child.

Porthill Scout Group do not keep this money, it has to be paid directly to the national Scouts Association to run the organisation.

Please can you send monies to your son/daughter’s next Scout/Cub/Beaver/ meeting when receipts will be provided. Any cheques should can be made payable to “1^st St Andrews Porthill Scout Group”. If your child is a new member please can you ask to complete a Gift Aid declaration form (available from section leaders).

Thanks

Kev – Group Treasurer