Posts Tagged ‘History’

Back in May we talked about trying to find an old photo that was taken of the Troop in January 1926 (as we now know). We had a vague photo of it and that was all.

It was taken to be presented to the Church’s Vicar, Fr. Nash, who was moving to a new post in Devon. We think he got a copy and the Church kept one as well. At the same time a photo of the Church’s Guides was also taken and now this photo has turned up! It was found down the back of a cupboard in Church.

However it has not stood the test of time too well.

As you can see part has been torn away and it is quite dirty. Fr. Nash is just about visible in the middle and I’m guessing the lady beside him is his wife.

Wouldn’t it be great if there are still other copies in existence. It would be great (but highly unlikely) if the negatives could be found!

Anyone who knows anything about these two photos, please get in touch with us here.

The part of our website that tells the History of our Group has been given a makeover.

As well as a new look, new information is also being added over the next few weeks, so take a look!

The oldest video of the Troop has recently been found. Watch it here -

A couple of the pages in the Gallery have been updated to incude more and better photos of the events.

See the Group Camp in 1988, the Scout’s London Trips in 2001 and 2003 and the Family Evening in 2003.

This is part of a photo taken at the Hall in the mid to late 1970’s. It shows a framed photo of the Troop in the late 1910’s or early 1920’s (I think) and it’s the earliest photo of the Troop we know of. The trouble is, we don’t know where it is! A few members of the Group have vague recollections of it (me included), but no one knows what actually happened to it!

I really hope that it hasn’t been thrown away and I’d be quite disappointed if it has. We’re hoping it’s hidden away somewhere in the Hall. There is a rumour that it could be under the stage somewhere – I do hope so.

We have the negative of the above photo, which when it is located, I’m going to scan it with my negative scanner and hope that I get get a slightly better image.

I would be great, however, to find the framed original!

If anyone knows the whereabouts of the original, PLEASE let us know!

Until yesterday, we didn’t know the the details of one of our Scouts on our War Memorial. However, a chap who has been researching the details of the people listed on the Wolstanton War Memorial got in touch with us as he’d been looking at ours as well and was interested in the memorial that had been put together.

He found the details of the missing Scout, Harold Bailey, in an old issue of the the Sentinel -

Sentinel 28th September 1918
Harold Bailey killed in action on the 25th March 1918 of the KOYLI eldest son of the late Charles Frederick Bailey of Porthill & Tunstall, he was aged 19.

So he was looked up on the CWGC website and there he was.

It’s good that we’ve found this last Scout, as they all deserve to be remembered properly by the current members of the Group.

During our Centenary last year, we decided to have a badge to commemorate the fact (you can see it on the welcome page). These badges were given out to all members of the Group and any old members we knew about.

We decided that the badge was too good to only use for a year so we have decided to keep it.

Paul and Rachael have slightly redesigned it to reflect the fact that it is no longer our Centenary, but it still pays tribute to our beginnings in 1908.

This new version of the badge will be given to our new members from now on.

Please take time to visit our memorial to the members of our Scout Troop who were killed as a result of war. Please remember them.

We have been given some photographs of the Group from the late 1940′s and early 1950′s by Bob Hadley who was the Scout Master at the time.

We are extremely grateful to Bob for letting us have these photos.

The rest can be seen in the gallery.