11th Cambridge

Cambridge District Scout Archive


1932 Meeting in a hayloft above a stable where Alan McKenzie, later GSL, DC, CC, was invested.

Note ‘2nd Newnham Cubs’

The cake was presumably baked in 1970, 60 years after the start of both the 11th and 9th Troops. The retention of the 2nd Newnham Cubs, a good year after the District cancelled the 2nd’s registration may be no more than a polite remembrance.

Castle End Mission Temporary home c 1972. on Pound Hill off Castle Hill.

1987 Planned opening of Beaver Colony. Alan McKenzie moved to be Chair of Scout &Guide Centre

1994 The South Cambridge District Bulletin reported that the Troop had closed, with no other details.

JWR Archivist Mar 2019