Newport/Wormit Scout Camp 1952
The first photograph here shows Jimmy Calder and Glen McBurnie in the camp kitchen doing a bit of housework.
In the second photograph the four older boys from left to right are Harold Inglis, John Dott, Claude Taylor with his hand on the tent pole and Gavin Cairns leaning on the pole.
Ken Hart tells us that these photographs were taken at the annual summer camp at Littleton, Inchture in 1952. Ken says “The weather looks miserable but funnily enough I do not remember rain or mist at any summer camps. I suppose we expected to be wet and hardly noticed when we were. I do remember that we were camped on quite a slope that year which, come to think of it, probably helped with drainage.”
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In the second of these two photos, the large tent on which Gavin Cairns is leaning is the green ex-US Army marquee which my father bought for the Troop. It conferred two advantages: all could eat under cover in poor weather at the long wooden table from defunct Mars Sheds kitchen; it was also big enough for all to sleep in their sleeping-bags for the last night, allowing for Patrol Tents to be struck & packed and campsite cleared in readiness for the arrival of Bayne’s lorry.
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