I will start replacing pictures tomorrow.

In the meantime I have published small pieces on Scout Pace (very few references), Courts of Honour (also few examples) and a bit on dancing that should add to more in due course.

JWR

The Cambridge District Scout Archive Collection has been given a Wolf Cub flag of the 8th Cambridge. Held by the late Donald Beard since the closure of the pack the flag is on a two part bayonet joint pole with a silver metal leaping wolf finial.

Unlike the existing Wolf Cub flag in the collection (19th Cambridge), which has the affiliation ‘Wesley’ under the wolf head, the new donation has the words ‘Wolf Cubs’ beneath the wolf head.

It has mild wear but looks as if it was put away following a cleaning.

Based in Romsey the group met at Romsey Mill and were associated with the Methodist church. The last ‘8th’ ran between 1964 and 1969, as far as the archives show. Little else is known, not even the colour of the scarf.

See ‘8th Cambridge’ for the outline history of all groups that ran under the 8th Cambridge name.

A quiet day yesterday but I think all the new pictures are now holding.

The Headquarters and Grafton street plan are still in place, as are the pictures in the Meeting Places page.

I added pages on Swimming Sports, a review of leader numbers from 1950’s and a page on the Scout Shop history. Tables rather than pictures but still in place.

I can better face a bit of catch up now and redo a few more today.

Sometime soon I will face putting the page on scarves with all the pictures in place (as altered by the WordPress format).

More ‘Group’ pages have been loaded, 10th, 12th, 15th and 17th, along with Pages on Churches in Cambridge linked with Groups, Soap Box Derby, Floods in Derbyshire (the Cambridge Connection) and District Headquarters.

The pictures – some have stuck and some not. I will persist.

JWR

The pictures appear to be holding.

New posts on Railways, Rationing and Royalty. Alphabetical but not consciously so.

JWR

I think, I hope, that I have resolved the missing pictures. These will be replaced gradually over the next week or so, because it is an irksome to repeat a task.

Further ‘Group’ pages and occasional articles will intersperse this chore.

Some of the Group pages have uncertainties highlighted. As noted elsewhere there is no single source that can be called definitive. Many of the passing observations that build the picture cannot be accurately dated. The ‘doubts’ will remain highlighted until they become clear.

JWR

I have been filling the site with pre-existing finished pages. Whilst I have many of these left to load, particularly the individual ‘groups’, I will start to add some newly completed pages.

The added pages on the Cornwell Badge and in particular Eric Curwain have been less than straightforward to compile and as such eventually most satisfying.

Most pages will be updated as new information comes in. Some, such as scarves (when I load it) will remain unaltered as it does not purport to be a comprehensive list but a discussion with examples. New categories of information on scarves will be added if they arise.

The menu categories may be rearranged as categories develop. This will certainly be the case with ‘Groups’ which will hold about 150 pages when they are complete, 21 Cambridge District numbers, 69 Cambridge numbers, many numberless Groups or ‘1st’s’, Rovers, Ventures, Explorers and any section that requires a page.

I will intersperse these with attempting to reload the pages with missing parts or photo’s.

Please do pass on your records so that I can include them or add details to existing pages. The lack of detail on some subjects is informative in its absence but this lack is a largely mono-dimensional piece of information. The snippets and asides give depth and colour.

JWR

A page or two more but some of the pictures and tables are not transferring.

I have not yet resolved this, they are clear on the draft but get lost on the published version. Wish I knew what I was doing.

JWR

Can anyone confirm that Shane was a Scout. I have read that he was introduced as and invited to talk to a Scouts (Venture group_) as an ex scout but cannot relocate the piece

Shane Acton an ex Cambridge Grammar school, Royal Marine and Scout circumnavigated the globe in an 18’ boat, the smallest to do so at that time.  He sailed from Cambridge in 1972, returning in 1980.

A few days in and I am getting to grips with how to add charts and graphs and pictures. Many of the pages require a little more editing as I see them on the screen. The shape of the menu is likely to change as categories become clearer.

I am very aware that one or two of the early pieces are of very limited interest to anyone, but they had no pictures and were useful test pages for me, easy to get on and not disastrous if lost. West Cambridge 1935 is the least interesting of pages and I suspect I am the only one who knows more of it’s existence than the single line in W T Thurbons ‘Archaeology’. It does, however, complete the picture of divisions of the District and, taking me some pains to untangle, was a satisfying piece of the jigsaw to put in place.

I will be moving to more of the Group pages over the next week.

As you identify gaps or errors please let me know.