Cambridge District Scout Archive
This list is not complete but a starting point for later discoveries.
The Troops that listed as Sea Scouts fall into two sets, the Schools and the Town. The 5th and 60th were School based; the 1st, 12th, 29th – 29th/42nd and 25th the longest of the town groups. See Sea Scouts in Cambridge for all the groups listed.
| 12th Cambridge | Behind Portland Arms Chesterton Road | 1955 – 198_ |
| Banham’s Boat Yard | 1922 | |
| Cambridge Scouts’ Boat Club | Queens’ College Boat Club (loan of equipment) | 1923 |
| King s College Boat Club (demolished for Elizabeth Way) | 1960’s – late 60’s | |
| Banham Middle Yard | until 1971 | |
| Banham Upper Yard (courtesy of Pye) | 1971 – 1975 | |
| 25th | ? | |
| 26th | Scudamores Boat Yard | 1938 |
| 29/42nd | ? | |
| 51st (later Whittlesford) | ? | |
| 60th | Banhams Boat Yard working with 1st and 12th | 1947 – |
| 1st Cambridge | Pococks Boat Yard | 1913 |
| 32 Banham Moat Yard, Ferry Path | 1919 | |
| University Boat House, Ferry Road | 1971 | |
| 32 Cam Road Yard | 1937 |
6/6/1913 Cambridge Sea Scouts opened their new Headquarters at Pocock’s boat yard. It consists of two capital rooms like cabins on board ship one fitted up as a workshop, the other containing various games. They also launched their new boat, named the Albert, built of pine and elm with six oars and a mast, capable of carrying 10 boys. Cambridge Independent Press
Pocock’s became Banham’s c 1927. Banham had several sites and the dates and locations are not always clear.
JWR Archivist Oct 2020
Cambridge District Scout Archive 