Buckmore Park Scouts Camp Chatham.
A Memory of Chatham.
My first week away from home was in August 1964, when I was 9 years old. It was at Buckmore Park Scouts camp, Chatham. I belonged to the 22nd Sea Scout group, Wathamstow, east London. I think from memory, I had £3 to spend for the week.
We ate in a large, round roofed, corrugated hut at the camp. I loved the rope slide which went across a field. There was a big camp fire on the edge of the woods and we sang scout songs around it. I saw my first shooting star. The boys were so noisy at night, we were made to run round the field to tire us out, to make us sleep!
I did send a postcard to my parents, but sadly, I don't think I've got it any more. I was surprised though, to find another postcard, for my birthday, from Akele. It was a Frith series no: Frith/95actm119.
The camp no longer exists (although I think the woods are still there) and has been replaced by a go kart track.
I now work just down the road from where the camp was, next to Rochester airport, 47 years later!
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