Say cheese!

 

Posed taking a break from spending time outdoors this group of cubs and scouts clearly have had an enjoyable time exploring the woods in the Winter.

Wouldn't you rather be doing something like that?

Scouts at Christmas

This week we are counting down Christmas so for post before the Christmas pause here we are looking at few classic scout magazine front covers from the past.

Many has been the scout troop who had a Santa but I don't know if any had such spirited helpers in making him such a great one filling him out and sorting out the beard.

Baubles on your Christmas tree complete with tinsel and lights are by no means uncommon but have you ever had a bauble reflect an image of a scout? 

Having put up the family tree and set everything up were this scouts parents expecting a bugle call as part of the service?

I find vintage scout related art fascinating to look at. 

Going back in time

The way things were when within the Scout Association Wolfcubs were a thing, here it's a South London pack around 1962 looking fresh, very well turned out and full of excitement for loving what the Wolf Cub program then offered boys.

It's that which keeps me going.

Drawing a line under a past incident

One thing I wrote about on my main blog and mentioned the odd time in passing is the symbolism of cub scouting as part of a childhood denied and the extent to which it was the first manifestation of my reversion to being more like the eternal boy of ten I always felt in my mid teens.

The former did as anyone who has read this blog page to page knows mattered and the latter involved using what had been left toward the back of draws from the time previous plus bits of my younger brothers cub uniform after he'd left.
My earliest regressive experiences did involve dressing in cub attire  but following the accidental discovery of the garters I was gutted to be informed they'd all been thrown away as "You no longer need them" at which point you felt like saying "define NEED Mum".
Anyway, while not being identical to the one I had then, I now have the early 80's version, the nearest one can get to restoring a lost link to the past although no doubt at some point I may well get the new 'wolf cub' cap, kneckerchief, green top, and garters a well know Derbyshire supplier stocks in adult sizes although when it comes to footwear I do take boys rather than men's sizes.
A line is can now be drawn under that part of my past.

Rewind to the past

Source: tedbangor

Back to when this adventure really started in 1973 where this Cub Pack  appears to have been convened for a official photograph with their Akela although this could not of been taken at a regular meeting as a number of them inexplicably are in school uniform.

With those few exceptions they are the kind of Cubs I knew in Junior School.