Scouts help

 As a Scout during WW2, you could be asked to help in great number of ways as the war had taken many from general society from fixing repairs, running errands or helping up up air raid shelters.

Scouts contribution was formally recognized at the end of WW2 apart from individual contributions where awards were issued and rightly so as it all helped this Country survive and from that free Europe from the scourge of Nazism.

Things are different today, thank goodness but we're helping to make things better, saving lives, training the next generation to ensure we can look after each other.

Getting Stuff

 

Scouts do things in extra ordinary times and non so than during both World Wars and here durng WW2 where food was in short supply and men were generally called for  Military Service, scouts assisted in growing food, preparing plots of any usable size such this outside a teaching hospital.

Past as inspiration?

 

With perhaps the addition of a skort option reflecting the Co-ed nature of Scouts today, perhaps a return to much of the 1970's Cubs look might be a good starting point to a return to smarter looking Cubs than some we see today?

Something that stands out, that you wear with pride and are encouraged to keep in good shape on you as well as off.

Just branding leisure wear with Scout Logo's  just doesn't give the right impression.

Inspection!

 The old days, older than me actually, and at the opening of the New District in Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, as part of the local reorganization of scouts, they are inspected with the lad on the right looking a bit apprehensive.

Nobody wants children and young people to be apprehensive but given we do have a uniform I really don't see what's wrong with the odd inspection, handled sensitively, so everybody is looking smart and looking smart still matters in much of society.

In time of course much reorganization happened although parts were over time  reversed but looking at pictures of troops between the decades you can see the slide in standards.

A Past

 

The ways things were, Stateside...

The badges you could earn when there was only  BOY in the B.S.A. and a smart practical uniform suited to outdoors and in.

Other ideas on Uniform

 

Going over the Atlantic for some vintage uniform ideas and we're back to the 80'a but as it applied for Canadian Boy Scouts, noting the use of the Sash as in Girl Guiding to hold awards on and the more formal styled shirt..

Things fit together

 

You often have interests that aren't exclusive to being a scout but maybe that you'll encounter others that share them along your path as that scout like playing games such as Chess, perhaps vintage , often steam railways or as with this scout vintage cars.

All three were things with me and do have the potential do build on skills you'll find useful as a scout such as thinking, developing stratagies, having a role within team, learning about how things work, doing day to day maintance.

It could easily of been me aged ten taking an interest in that car.