District Gazettes

Cambridge District Scout Archive

District Archives holds copies of the following; full years unless stated, X for no copies

  • GSG Grafton Street Gazette
  • GSG&AA Grafton Street Gazette & Abington Advertiser after opening of Abington campsite
  • CSG Cambridge Scout Gazette on the move from Grafton Street

District

  • 1922    Cambridge & District Boy Scout Association Gazette Vol. 1 No. 1 June 1922
  • 1923    Cambridge & District Boy Scout Association Gazette
  • 1924    Cambridge & District Boy Scout Association Gazette
  • 1925    Cambridge & District Boy Scout Association Gazette
  • 1926    Cambridge & District Boy Scout Association Gazette
  • 1927    Cambridge & District Boy Scout Association Gazette Vol. 2 No. 8   July 1927
  • 1929    X Grafton Street Gazette started by T G Room
  • 1930    X         
  • 1931    GSG                             Part of 16 and 17 – 73                        from    15/10/1931
  • 1932    GSG
  • 1933    GSG
  • 1934    GSG / GSG&AA Issued fortnightly until No. 58, 3/10/1934, then monthly
  • 1935    GSG&AA                                                                   to         16/12/1935

Some copies are known for the missing years but few are held in the District Archive Collection. Copies were printed during 1939 – 1945; 9/43, 12/43, 2/44, 12/47 being in wartime addresses file and a single double sided sheet for 1942 in a 12th Collection.

  • 1947    GSG
  • 1948   GSG&AA
  • 1949   GSG&AA
  • 1950   GSG&AA
  • 1951    GSG&AA
  • 1952    GSG&AA
  • 1953    GSG&AA
  • 1954    GSG&AA
  • 1955    GSG&AA Ed. Mrs Jean Arthur (wife of DC)
  • 1956    X              9 of ten issues in 54th records
  • 1957    X              7 of 8 or 9 issues in 54th records            + Cub Sec Newsletter   
  • 1958    GSG (November onward) Jan and Feb in 54th records Ed S A V Roper by Nov 1958
  • 1959    GSG
  • 1960    GSG
  • 1961    GSG
  • 1962    GSG
  • 1963    GSG    
  • 1964    GSG     9 issues this year
  • 1965    CSG      10 issues this year Now ‘Cambridge Scout Gazette’ with move from Grafton Street
  • 1966    CSG      10 issues this year
  • 1967    CSG      10 issues this year
  • 1968    CSG      10 issues this year
  • 1969    CSG      10 issues this year
  • 1970    CSG      9 issues this year
  • 1971    CSG      8 issues this year
  • 1972    CSG      8 issues this year
  • 1973    CSG      8 issues this year
  • 1974    CSG      10 issues this year
  • 1975    CSG      10 issues this year
  • 1976    CSG     
  • 1977    CSG     
  • 1978    CSG      8 issues this year
  • 1979    CSG      7 issues this year
  • 1980    CSG      6 issues this year
  • 1981    CSG      6 issues this year
  • 1982    CSG      8 issues this year
  • 1983    CSG      6 issues this year
  • 1984    CSG      3 issues this year         End May 1984 with change in Districts

Editors

  • T G Room 1931 – 1935
  • H A Martin around 1947 – 1951
  • Cecil J Brown 1951 – 1954
  • J A Arthur – Jan 1958
  • S A V Roper Feb 1958 – 1962 1963 – 1965 jointly with J Chambers (WTT said 1950 . J A Arthur wife of the DC, may have worked with Stan)
  • John & Rosemary Chambers 1966 – 1984 John and Rosemary Chambers

In 1980 and 1981 in July the ‘Cambridge District Broadsheet and Scouting News’ was published in place of the CSG of that month, a full sheet of all names and contact details for the District.

Some further copies sit within individual sub records in the collection.

County

  • 1935    Cambridgeshire County Gazette        Vol 1 Nos. 1 – 4 

WTT believed that no more were issued.

Sky Blue Cambridge University Rover Crew

No 42, 44 (1/53), 45 (3/53)

Sky Blue Renumbered from start of CUSAGC

  • No. 1    April 1953
  • No.2     10/53   (First called Skyblue)
  • No. 4, 6, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17

JWR Archivist Oct 2019