Cubs, Brownies, Scouts or Girl Guides, which were you?
 

Back in the early 60's joined the Cubs group at the old St.Peters school down Willows Lane. Couldn't afford the uniform but did have the neckerchief and the woggle mind. Never good enough to get even 1 badge! :mad::D

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Sea Cadets.

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Air cadets, got to fly a Chipmunk trainer & shoot .303's bruised like hell & half deaf but still :D

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brownies .. and then ran the scouts and cubs with my mate at 1st church kirk ... 2 doors away from the stag pub .. and then helped run brownies at stonefold for a few years ..

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Looking forward to reading about your adventures in an Exposa in the news of the world

P.S. Did you keep the uniforms?
:dflam:

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mid 50's...Brownies, St James's, Accrington...... very vague memories..but think somebody gave my Mum a second hand uniform for me to wear

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St Pauls Ossy cubs gave up after 6 months

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Couldn't get into the pub in your uniform!!!

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A bit like now, couldn't see any point in earning the badges, I'll join something that expects them to be given, Life long member of which party?
:hidewall:

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Caught him playing with his Woggle ! At least I'm pretty sure that's what he said ! :D

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I remember now J, your the guy that started the "Cubs in Pubs" party!!!

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Brownies then Girl Guides.... how good was i lol

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went once to cubs forget name, but was up off the track off queens rd railway bridge, stayed about 10 mins n thought sod this.:D

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That would have been the Scout Hut that belonged to St. John's, Cashy. 10 minutes ? Gave it a fair trial then... :D

Brownies/Guides at St. John's, then Akela at St.Augustines for a while .. bet that surprised you.

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Not really Kate ,after all yer respectable.;)

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The walls not big enough Less, no there were no girls so no good to me:rolleyes:

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Oh, I don't know, Jaysay, there was very close liaisons between the Scout and Guide troops at St. Johns in my day... ;)

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You didn't see the guides where I was Kate:D

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Quite true, was known to liaise wi a couple of guides meself.:dflam:

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St Pauls on Plantation St. 55-58 Had some great camps.

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I joined St Peter's Cubs in 1950. I still have my neckerchief but lost my woggle (along with many other things, probably) many years ago.
davidf

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I was a member of the Edgeside Boys Brigade. I only went so I could play for the football team :)

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Hi ossy kid,
Remember that we met at the Saturday nights dances at Spring Hill? Well nearly met because I was there about five years before you - probably when you were in the cubs at St Paul's. So you moved around then. I was in St Peter's Cubs from 1950 to 1953 and became friendly with a lad who was a Sixer in St Paul's (real reason for this reply, the St Paul's link). His name was Philip and he lived on Barnfield Street and perhaps you knew him if you lived in that area. His family had a telly and sometimes I used to go to his house and we'd watch "Little Red Monkey", which is so long ago I can't remember what it was about.
davidf

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Sorry David, don't recall a Philip on Barnfield St. I did deliver papers to Barnfield St though. What is a sixer?

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Boys Brigade for me....

1st Accrington Company out of Spring Hill

Was in the Brass Band for most of it as well

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Hi Ian, quick question, what was the name of the band leader? ta

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Geoff Smale was one of the main leaders, was that who you were after? He used to work for the council parks and gardens IIRC in the offices.

there was an old fella conductor when I first joined ( Arthur?????? ) who lived on Craven street ( bottom house of the terrace block on the right as you looked up)

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Arthur Holden was his name he had the Offie there. He had a son called Stuart who was my best mate. Died one afternoon there when he was 14 whilst having an asthma attack. First person I was close to who died, very sad. Arthur and his wife May never got over it. Thanks for the info.

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Was Arthur the bloke thet ran the Offy at the end of Charter street? just round the corner up the hill? He drove a Blue Mk1 Granada 3.0 Auto IIRC ( Bit of a petrol head so was always impressed with the 3 Litre engine :D )

I'm thinking of a small slight old man who lived on Craven street next to the back entry that led to the small park bit( If you can call concrete Lumps with bits of wood from them a park!)

I'm assuming you were about at the time then, whats your name and how would I recall you? ( I was one of the cornet players and switched to Trombone when I was about 15 in ~ 1985 )

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Almost certain it was Arthur from the Offy. He did like his cars, he once took me and Stuart to Blackpool in a beautiful blue mark 2 Jag this was in the early 60's. Sad to say I never played an instrument except the recorder you got 1st year at big school. Thanks again Ian.

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:)
Hi again, cubs in a pack were split up into teams called "sixes" (for admin, training and competition purposes) and a Sixer was a senior cub who was the leader of a "six". He was helped by a "Seconder" - a less senior cub. There was also one Senior Sixer in the pack who assisted Akela in whatever way Akela wished, perhaps by helping to see that things were running smoothly in the pack.
davidf

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I know this is an old post but I'm a newish member and just catching up. The Philip on Barnfield St. is Philip Edleston. He was a friend of my brother. His father had a grocer's shop in Plantation St. My mum left the order on a Wednesday morning and it was delivered in the afternoon. Wednesday was half day closing then, maybe still is.

Joan

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I used to be in the Scouts at Oak Street Congregational Church in Oak Street Accrington. I was a Patrol Leader

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Certainly jogs my memory----cubs in about 1955 at St Peters

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My sister, three years younger than me, was in Cannon Street Baptist Brownies, but I wasn't interested. Then I found out that their Guides were going camping and I really wanted to go, so I joined the Guides. I got a sleeping bag, kitbag and plate mug and cutlery from the Army surplus store by Catlows, all very basic. That first camp was in Wales in 1957 and it was very wet but I loved it. In later years we went to Edinburgh, the New Forest and Sussex and I still love camping today.

Sadly I left the Guides when the twin draws of GCE exams and boyfriends lured me away but I enjoyed it at the time and I got to be a patrol leader. At different times I was a Bluetit and a Robin and I still remember the Bluetit motto- Do it now!