The 1st Hatch End Scouts Camp at Piddletrenthide
This view is EXACTLY as I remember this lovely village where the scouts from Hatch End spent a two week summer camp in 1957.
Although I no longer recall the name of the particular farm where we set up camp, I do remember our troop carrying out a good turn for the farmer. We were asked to demolish one of the ruined outbuildings and a month or so later we received an impressive scroll from him giving us the "right to call ourselves barnstormers and to march over his land forever with flags flying and knives unsheathed". A great impression on this 11 year old! The farmer's scroll was displayed in the Scout Hut back in Hatch End for many years as we all had such lovely memories of our two weeks in Piddletrenthide!
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RE: RE: The 1st Hatch End Scouts Camp at Piddletrenthide
Yes, a lovely county Dorset, even today when so much has changed and is changing in our country. 1st Hatch End Scouts returned to Piddletrenthide in 1960 for their summer camp which I attended. The previous year we had enjoyed beautiful weather camping near Exford in Somerset but in 1960 the rain hosed down. One day it was so bad all activities were cancelled and we huddled in our cotton Nijer tents trying to keep warm and dry. This was all before fly sheets, sewn in groundsheets and nylon waterproofs! The Scoutmasters kept coming round to check on us and even encourage us to get out and light a fire - we thought they were mad. We ate our porridge uncooked as usual I must say - to avoid burning it on the inside of the billies. At lunch time the leaders came round with boiled eggs and bread and butter - it turned out they had got their fire going by protecting it with dining shelters - that's lateral thinking for you. We camped at Grid ST682022 near spot height 234 metres; no wonder it was wet and windy!
Comment from Graham Rutledge on Wednesday, 12th January 2011.