Good day collecting

Good day out today and this little lot was from one antique centre! Sadly I don't know who they are in the photographs, the group photo is very early as the scouts aren't wearing woggles and the photo with the trek cart piled high is 1950s as 2 are wearing berets.

War weekend 2014

Well that's another War Weekend gone and lots of very interesting scouting chin wags, many nostalgic memories shared. A big thanks to this years addition of the Thane Rover Crew who came to demonstrate 1940s camp craft and scouting.

Scout Officers uniform 1920s.

A sight of the archive museum.

1940s King's Scout Uniform

Archive Fact

A little fact I found out today about the North Riding Badge- it was originally red with writing and the rose but the red colour could not be obtained during the Second World War so it changed to maroon and returned to its original red colour in the early 1950s  and when the county boundaries changed in the 1970s it changed from a ribbon badge to a woven bound North Yorkshire Badge we have today.

North Riding Badge (Red)

Recent activities

Its been another good year for the archives we have been forever collecting items from across the country, the Ryedale Scouting History book project is going well, we now have most group registration cards courtesy of the Scout Association archives so they have really given a lot of help and bulk to the project and the History of Scouting in Pickering Book is going well after interviewing past members and trawling through photographs this should be completed by mid 2014 fingers crossed.

Pickering Scout - V. Robinson