{"id":355,"date":"2008-07-14T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=355"},"modified":"2012-02-03T09:07:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T09:07:39","slug":"history-of-a-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"History of a Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:589,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.escouts.org.uk\\\/forum\\\/showthread.php?t=7739&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:106,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.escouts.org.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:590,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/bredescouts.homestead.com\\\/Bredehistory.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:591,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.croslandmoorscouts.org.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260114064925\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.croslandmoorscouts.org.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:55:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:55:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:592,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/feedproxy.google.com\\\/~r\\\/melrosescoutingproductions\\\/~3\\\/N3xtN6y6KrM\\\/T68EarlyYearsPTC.m4v&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:593,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/whitleybeaumont.co.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escouts.org.uk\/forum\/showthread.php?t=7739\" target=\"_blank\">this thread<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escouts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Escouts site<\/a> the other day, which was talking about the history of Scout Troops \/ Groups. The chap who&#8217;d started the thread stated &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I know there is a cracking history section at a Group in Staffordshire but I&#8217;ve lost the link.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So I replied that I thought it might have been ours and it was! <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Embarrassed\" src=\"http:\/\/messenger.msn.com\/MMM2006-04-19_17.00\/Resource\/emoticons\/red_smile.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Reading through the rest of the posts, there are some fascinating histories out there and it&#8217;s very important to remember where our Troop \/ Groups came from. When I started to look into our Group, I didn&#8217;t have much info going back before the 1960&#8217;s and couldn&#8217;t prove when we started. I can now!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s quite humbling to think that the info on my Group has inspired someone else to look into theirs. It&#8217;s also really interesting researching the history and I spent a good part of Saturday afternoon reading some old District minute books and I&#8217;m going to the library tomorrow to look something up in the local newspaper!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">A few interesting histories &#8211;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bredescouts.homestead.com\/Bredehistory.html\" target=\"_blank\">1st Brede Scouts<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.croslandmoorscouts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">43rd Huddersfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/melrosescoutingproductions\/~3\/N3xtN6y6KrM\/T68EarlyYearsPTC.m4v\" target=\"_blank\">Troop 68 &#8211; The Early Years<\/a> &#8211; A video history of Troop 68, Melrose, Minnesota, USA. Steve B their Scoutmaster, is very good at Scouting videos.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whitleybeaumont.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whitley Beaumont Camp Site<\/a> &#8211; Written by Ewan Scott who posted the original thread.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Anyway, lets remember our past, but always look to the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this thread on the Escouts site the other day, which was talking about the history of Scout Troops \/ Groups. The chap who&#8217;d started the thread stated &#8211; I know there is a cracking history section at a Group in Staffordshire but I&#8217;ve lost the link. So I replied that I thought &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;History of a Group&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-5J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}