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Rushden Scouts - pre WWII

1st Rushden Scout Band
The 1st Rushden Scout Band - c1920
A Tomkins, F Pinnock, D Clayton, J Allen, S Sharpe, B Smith, R Knight

unknown group
c1922 on the lawns of Rushden Hall
Leaders l-r: G Fountain (Scout Master), B Houghton (Assistant Scout Master)
Centre: Mr H Sartoris (chairman), F E Preston (district commissioner), Clarice Knight (cub mistress)

St Mary's Scouts
An early picture by C F Chapman - St Mary's Scouts in the Rectory Field

date unknown
Taken ouside the headquarters in Skinners Hill - the YMCA building in the background
and when the buses still used the 'parade ground'
Back row: 3rd from left Jim Jones, then Les Rootham, Don Winters, Bob Corby (others unidentified) c1940

Please can you help with any more names or the date?
date unknown

Leader's Training
Grendon Hall about 1950/51 Patrol Leaders’ Training

2nd row: 2nd from right Robert Clarke

3rd row: 6th & 7th from right George Wagstaff & brother, 4th from right John Burton

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