More Old Troop Photos

While talking to my Dad this afternoon, he showed me a couple of photos he’d dug out. These are for a small display that is going up at the Church’s Hall which is 100 years old this year (youngsters! The Church itself was built in 1881).

Anyway one of the photos was this one –

Scouts (Large)

We think this is from the late 1950’s and shows some of our Cubs and Scouts along with some of the Church’s Guides with the Church Queen. We think the flag they are holding is the Troop flag we’ve just retired.

The other photo was of a dinner held at the Hall in the mid 1970’s. This in itself isn’t that interesting on the Scouting front, but in the background is something we’ve been searching for for a couple of years.

Old Scouts (Large)

It’s a framed photo of the Troop in the late 1910’s or early 1920’s (I think) and it’s the earliest photo of the Troop we know of. The trouble is, we don’t know where it is! A few members of the Group have vague recollections of it (me included), but no one knows what actually happened to it!

I really hope that it hasn’t been thrown away and I’d be quite disappointed if it has. We’re hoping it’s hidden away somewhere in the Hall. There is a rumour that it could be under the stage somewhere – I hope so.

We have the negative of the above photo, so when my Mum digs it out, I’m going to scan it with my negative scanner and hope that I get get a slightly better image.

I would be great, however, to find the original!

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