17th Hartlepool Scouts and Cubs. Flyer for their Inddor Fair in 1965. Tickets cost 3d (roughly 2pence).

Taken near Helmsley. Neil Midgley has the cigarette. Frank Welford on grass was in charge of 1st Aid but passed out when a boy cut hand on a corned beef tin. He was subseequently in charge of wood and sewage !

Circa 1956 at Lartington camp

Soldier sat down with another sodier to his left and a boy scout to his right. Possibly a family photograph.

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Taken at Whit 1956, the image shows Albert Knox of the 40th Scouts with the cheif scout, sporting a kilt, at the Lambton Park Jamboree.

Taken in late 1950s at Brancepeth, Albert Knox  was commissioner scout and Pop Prior cub commissioner.

Possibly taken in Park Road, two boys are gardening to earn their 'bobs'. In the more gentle and safer days in the 1950s when this image was taken, young scouts and cubs would knock on doors and do tasks inside and outside to help with funds.

Three Boy Scouts standing beside 'Nelson' the tank. as a soldier looks inside.

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This image of a St George's Day parade is quite unusual as it shows Christ Church vicarage on the right. An image in 1960 on these pages shows an empty space as it was soon to be demolished. For some time the site was vacant before Barclays Bank was built on the site. This building was later altered and is now Wetherspoons Ward Jackson pub.

Before demolition, the vicarage had for some years been a  Miinistry of Pensions office.

Taken in the garden of 37 The Oval, scout Frank Welford in his uniform in 1943.

The 40th Hartlepool Scouts had begun in a garden room of Oval Grange when the Pyman family lived there. The Yuill family gave some land on which to build new premises and around 1963, this was opened on the Tunstall Ave side of the land. The Oval Grange greenhouses can be seen behind.

On the photo are; Mr and Mrs Stevenson, two civic dignitaries, Mrs Pyman holding flowers and Mr Pyman behind, Albert Knox, Lloyd Taylor, Jimmy Atkinson, Anne Welford, David Wheeler, Frank Welford and Frank Dunn.

In May 1963, a new Scouts' Hall was opened in Tunstall Avenue in the grounds of Oval Grange.

Taken around 1956 at 37 The Oval, the image shows Frank Welford in a pedal car made from scrap and showing the Scout emblem on the bonnet. Looking on are 40th cub Terry Arthur and 40th scouts David Allen and Panshore Roberts.

The photo was taken in 1973 inside Longscar Hall. The 40th Scouts group scoutmaster was Lloyd Taylor, and here his mother is being presented with flowers to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 40th Scouts.

This original Longscar Hall had a concertina partition half way across the hall which created two smaller halls. This can be seen behind Mrs Taylor. The partition was opened for large events, as this must have been, and on exceptionally busy summer days at Seaton when there were also doors which opened onto the sea side of the building.

Scouts enjoying a camp held at Raby Castle around 1935 or '36. Chan Proud is on the far right in the back row, with his brother Alan beside him. 

Scouts from the 1st Whitehill, Chester-le-Street and West Hartlepool Girl Guides, in camp at Sandsend, sometime between 1946-48. On the back row are Scouts Walter Pattison, John McGorrigan and Jack Harvey. On the front row is James George Rutter with a Guide named Pamela, surname unknown.

Scouts from the 1st Whitehill, Chester-le-Street and West Hartlepool Girl Guides, in camp at Sandsend, sometime between 1946-48. The back row Scouts are Jack Hunter, ?, ?, Alec Wilson, Matty Coliins and Ronnie Redpath. On the next row Walter Pattison, Ronnie Gibson, John McGorrigan, Ralph Pearson, George Levitt.  Next row Colin Redpath.  Front row ?, Jack Harvey, Jack Spedding, Dicky Curry, James George Rutter, Joe Pearson, and Ernie White.  None of the Guides can be identified at present.

Picture depicting boy scouts visiting the Lighthouse in Hartlepool. Lighthouse keeper in the centre of the picture.

The 54th Fens Scout Group marching past St Aidan's on Oxford Street/ Stockton Road corner in 1982.

The 54th Fens Scouts marching past Stranton Church on St George's Day 1982.