Scouting Yesteryear's Archive

Formally known as the 1st Vale of Pickering Scout Archives. The Scouting Yesterdays Archive holds many interesting Scouting bygones, 100's of Badges over 30 Uniforms and many many more interesting artifacts. The archive was set up in 2009 as a research project on Pickering Scouts but in 2015 went through a complete reform and update so here we are today as the Scouting Yesteryear's Archive. (privately Owned Archive) our aim is to educate people of the history of Scouting.

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

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