Stokkie
master brummie
Great memories of camping at Yorks Wood in the 1960s with 258th Birmingham Cubs and Scouts (St Mary's,Bearwood). Bob Baines our scoutmaster, his son Keith, his mate Mick (both sea scouts), Bill Toye group leader and Stan. We wore pale blue neckerchiefs and constructed a Monkey Bridge with a lethal Spanish Windlass to get the rope taut. Learned to use an axe and knife without doing any lasting damage. Lots of singing round the campfire. Phillip Williams from school in Bearwood took me and his younger brother Michael joined too. I lived with mom, so this was an introduction to male bonding. Robert Pratt became a butcher. Alan Critchley I spoke to on the phone last year. I introduced my own family to camping which we continued until a couple of years ago. Had many memorable camps with cub, Scouts and Ventures (Rovers discontinued by then). At Oban it rained continuously for 13 of the 14 days, undaunted we sailed to Mull in an open boat and had to sit in the bottom as the waves picked up. But at Yorks Wood it seemed always sunny!
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