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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Very sad to read the news about Downe. Lots of great camps there with the Cubs and scouts. 38th Woolwich were the bosses. Always won the district football and usually the county too somewhere over Dulwich way. 13th Woolwich were our main rivals but we always had their measure 
    Sure we caught our coach to Sherwood Forrest from the Dulwich Scout HQ.

    Great time that was, especially when the quietest lad on the trip, flipped and wrapped a tentpole round my mates head on the last day, as we were striking the tents.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Addickted said:
    I was in the 7th Royal Eltham Cubs and Scouts at Deansfield School.

    When were you at Deansfield?

    And @thewolfboy?

    @Addickted, I was there at Cubs and Scouts I guess from about 1978-1985, plus at School there 1975-1981.

    I believe the 9th were there as well on a different night, moving from the Rochester Way playing field hut?
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    There is a Facebook Group called Save Downe Campsite already, it looks like an open group.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Addickted said:
    I was in the 7th Royal Eltham Cubs and Scouts at Deansfield School.

    When were you at Deansfield?

    And @thewolfboy?

    @Addickted, I was there at Cubs and Scouts I guess from about 1978-1985, plus at School there 1975-1981.

    I believe the 9th were there as well on a different night, moving from the Rochester Way playing field hut?
    You'd have been taught by my Mum.
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    edited November 2020
    Akela? Or at school?
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    I was at  cub scout camp, and one of our number woke up and was bright blue! Turns out Shaun was a bed wetter and the dye in his cheap camp bed mattress had run and stained him blue.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Hal1x said:
    I was at  cub scout camp, and one of our number woke up and was bright blue! Turns out Rob was a bed wetter and the dye in his cheap camp bed mattress had run and stained him blue.
    Edited  ;)

    School @EastTerrace
  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,285
    redman said:
    I find this very sad and disappointed with the decision. Once sold it will never be recovered. Scouting has been flourishing in the last 20 years and this is really damaging to the development of young people. 
     
    Sorry redman......I’ve obviously missed something.
    What decision has been made to sell what?
    to sell the Downe Activity Centre

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-54842923
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    edited November 2020
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