14th Bournemouth Cub Scouts (St Saviour's)
I moved to Bournemouth in 1954 when my dad got a job there with Williams Deacons Bank. He bought a house at 84 Petersfield Road, Boscombe. I went to Southbourne Junior School which was about two miles away so most of my friends were the ones I met in the cub pack at the St Saviour's church hall - the 14th Bournemouth.
It was great fun - I was just 8 when I started so they taught me to catch a ball, go for long cycle rides, to skip, to play 'wide games' in the fields and to explore the area. There was so much that we eight and nine year olds could do together on light summer evenings. Sometimes we went as far as Boscombe Pier!
Our cubmaster was Mr Babcock and he had a son in the cubs too. I wonder where all those boys are now as we must all be senior citizens now!
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A further thought about Petersfield Road: in the 1950s it backed on to open countryside which stretched for miles including plenty of gorse. Sometimes our Cub pack played open air games there and it would be great fun hiding quietly under a gorse bush and watching the feet of someone walking by and failing to see us!
I got up close to plenty of wild life there including lizards. Sometimes our tabby cat would catch one and bring it into our back garden. My mother was terrified but I was fascinated. At the time I was about nine years old and the cat, Kitty, had been given to me on my fourth birthday in 1949.
I remember our neighbours including the Unwin family - Mr Cedric Unwin and his son Stephen, and lovely old Mrs Pike a few doors away who without fail would always find a few 'bob-a-jobs' for me when we Cubs went knocking on people's doors. Happy days!
Comment from John Howard Norfolk on Thursday, 18th June 2009.