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Happy Childhood Holidays
I say 1950 for the year my memory relates to but in fact my memories cover from around 1946 to 196 I've only just found this web site for "Memories" although have looked at the site before and what nostalgia it has evoked ...Read more
A memory of Llwyngwril in 1950 by
My Childhood At Longmoor Camp
I lived in longmoor 1954 to 1965. My name was Carol Hoare, my brother Stephen and my sister Angela. We lived at 11 Baden Powell for the first 5 years, Angela was born there. Then 4, Union Rise. I went to Longmoor ...Read more
A memory of Longmoor Camp by
Back In The 70s
From 1975 we lived in one of the council maisonettes, Baden Powell House, which are still opposite the parade of shops in Lower Belvedere. I remember it was such a great place to grow up, knowing all the neighbours by name and being ...Read more
A memory of Belvedere
Rescue Of 5 Small Children From A Bombed Flat
I have traced a newspaper report telling of the rescue of myself and my four siblings when houses in Ryefield Avenue, Hillingdon were bombed in 1943. The report tells of one of the rescuers being a ...Read more
A memory of Hillingdon in 1943
The Raf Estate
We lived on the RAF estate in Ickenham during the late 1950s, in a semi-detached house at 14 Nettleton Road. Every RAF home mirrored the next; their furnishings were also identical. You could move from Scotland to England (which we had ...Read more
A memory of Ickenham in 1957 by
Shute After The War
My sister and I were at Shute between 1949 and 1952, and I hardly recognise some of the memories here! For us it was a happy place, where we rode ponies and made dens in the woods. We learned about wildflowers - Mrs. Clapp was very ...Read more
A memory of Shute by
Childhood
Funny how seeing Memories of Kingstanding title, it brought back so many thoughts of living there in childhood to my 20s. The Geman plane that dropped its bomb on a house in Hurlingham Road, hiding under stairs at school as the planes ...Read more
A memory of Kingstanding by
Army Junior Soldiers
I was at Park Hall camp. Our Sergeant was called Mathews and the Corporal called Ennis. Sgt Mathews was an unfit [fat] bully but Cpl Ennis was great. As a young 16 years old lad it was a bit of a shock to the system but not ...Read more
A memory of Oswestry in 1971 by
Lemington Upon Tyne, Scouting
Scouting Life during the Forties I was born in January 1936 in a large village, Lemington in Northumberland, England. Lemington bordered on the limit of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was a working class area ...Read more
A memory of Lemington in 1944 by
Ron Pat Shelton 1977 To 1981
In 1977, my late husband, Ron. and I moved from Melbourne, Australia into 28 Stoke Lyne at the end of the village. It was very dilapidated, consisting originally 2 workman's cottages. They had been converted to one ...Read more
A memory of Stoke Lyne in 1977 by
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The camp was recommended by Lord Baden Powell in 1911, and since then, thousands of soldiers, like these seen on marching drill at Kemmel Lines, have passed through.
In 1907, Robert Baden Powell held a camp for boys on the island, which laid the foundations for the Boy Scout movement.
It was the scene of Robert Baden-Powell's wedding in 1912; his bride was Olave Soames from nearby Lilliput overlooking Poole Harbour.
About a century ago Robert Baden Powell held the first Boy Scout camp on the island.
The Green c1955 We are looking across Newick's green from the pump towards the Bull Inn, famed at one time for the annual sports- man's suppers staged by Thomas Baden- Powell, cousin of the founder
In 1907, Robert Baden Powell held a camp for boys on the island, which laid the foundations for the Boy Scout movement, which he initiated not long afterwards.
Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, lived at Pax Hill from 1919 until his death in 1941; the house is now a nursing home.
In 1907, Robert Baden Powell held a camp for boys on the island, which laid the foundations for the Boy Scout movement.
In May 1900, during the Boer War, Mafeking in South Africa was relieved after being defended by the future Boy Scout founder Robert Baden-Powell for 215 days.
In 1911 Lord Baden-Powell recommended the former site of the Roman camp, Cataractonium, to be a major military camp - it still dominates the town.
The camp was recommended by Lord Baden Powell in 1911, and since then, thousands of 'squaddies' have passed through.
The book of 'Hampshire Treasures' states that the 'Bentley Book' on the left was 'designed by Lord Baden-Powell for the Daily Mail competition for village signs in 1923.
Though camping was already enjoyed, Baden-Powell's book 'Scouting for boys' was published in the same year, and may have increased its popularity.
Over 30,000 boys from all over the world gathered here, and the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Connaught, and Lord Baden-Powell himself visited them.
Baden-Powell, who served with distinction in South Africa, and Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in South Africa, are both honoured in the street names of Vickerstown.
Baden-Powell, who served with distinction in South Africa, and Lord Roberts, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in South Africa, are both honoured in the street names of Vickerstown.
When this picture was taken, things weren't so bad. In
It is a suggested site for the battlefield of Mount Badon, where the legendary King Arthur defeated the invading Saxons in the year 520.
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