It's all about Summer Camp.
Everything the Scouts do is getting ourselves ready for summer camp. This page lists as many of our summer camps as we can remember.
SUMMER CAMPS
1969
Haltwhistle (Near Hadrian's Wall) (A.M.)
Or was it Llangattock, near Crickhowell, South Wales - C.H?
1968
WHERE:
Tynedale
BASECAMP:
Alston, Cumbria
NUMBER OF SCOUTS:
15
NUMBER OF VENTURES:
4
THE BIG HIKE:
?.
REPORT:
(Believe it was either Cumberland or Westmoreland at the time before they changed county name C.H.)
(A.M. Became SL)
SUMMER CAMPS
1967
Ireland
(Killarney National Park)
Ross Island, Killarney, Ireland
1966
Isle of Man
Glen Mona, Isle of Man
1965
Scotland
Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland
1964
Exmoor, Devon
1963
1962
Scotland
Melrose (A.M.)
SUMMER CAMPS
Prior to the 1960s it gets a bit complicated because the group often had an Easter trip to Europe and a UK based summer camp...sometimes followed by an August trip to Switserland. A lot of these trips were joint trips with the Brentwood School Troop.
1961
Scotland
Braemar (1250 ft up!)
1961 (April)
Spain and Morocco
Gibralta (1st UK Troop), Tangier (1st UK Troop to Morocco)
