| alas to dyb dyb dobing 09:13 - Oct 29 with 2735 views | wood_hoop |
Never a cub or scout was in the Woodcraft Folk when a kid, very much like the Scouts through weekly meets earning badges for achieving various tasks, camping of course but generally a good time had by me and my street urchin mates.
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 09:26 - Oct 29 with 1994 views | Boston |
St.John’s Ambulance myself. |  |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 09:40 - Oct 29 with 1965 views | Mick_S |
13th Roxeth, Northolt Road, South Harrow, next to St Gabriel's Club. Friday night meets with my mates and run-outs on the way home. I loved it. Went on summer camp twice and encountered home sickness for the first time in my life. |  |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 09:41 - Oct 29 with 1962 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
1st Bury St Edmunds (Mayor's Own) Scouts
Coming from a family of 4 kids with my mum bringing us up on her own on National Assistance in mid 60's, it was a bit of a godsent when I was 7/8 and one of my sisters in the Guides.
My eldest daughter was in the Air Cadets. [Post edited 29 Oct 2020 11:05]
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 09:55 - Oct 29 with 1939 views | Konk |
Youngest sixer in the fuc king district, mate. To peak at the age of eight is a terrible thing. British Bulldog, crab football, bellowing out the cub’s promise and cubs-saluting the flag, Camping in tents with no fitted ground sheets in the pis sing down rain, sausages done over the fire, games of Kim, itchy jumpers, woggles, silly hats, sock tabs, church parade on Remembrance Sunday, Bob-a-fuc-king Job week with two of you clearing out a loft in some mad Bas tard’s house for 50p. And me and my brother not owning bikes, but getting our cycling badges after being taken to the finish point of the ride in a mini-bus and waiting around on our own for a couple of hours in a farmer’s field, waiting for everyone to turn up on their bikes. We! Will! Do! Our! Best! Good times!
Edit: Round our way, Cubs and ‘yoofy’ we’re on the same night (Tuesday). If you went to Cubs, you tended to be a BBC family, and the ITV mob went to the Youth club to drink pop, eat crisps and play table tennis with busted paddles and dented ping-pong balls. [Post edited 29 Oct 2020 10:01]
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 09:58 - Oct 29 with 1931 views | Mick_S |
You just reminded me - we spent what seemed like hours weeding a front garden in bob-a-job week and got 5p between four of us. Maybe we did a rubbish job. | |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:04 - Oct 29 with 1917 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 09:55 - Oct 29 by Konk |
Youngest sixer in the fuc king district, mate. To peak at the age of eight is a terrible thing. British Bulldog, crab football, bellowing out the cub’s promise and cubs-saluting the flag, Camping in tents with no fitted ground sheets in the pis sing down rain, sausages done over the fire, games of Kim, itchy jumpers, woggles, silly hats, sock tabs, church parade on Remembrance Sunday, Bob-a-fuc-king Job week with two of you clearing out a loft in some mad Bas tard’s house for 50p. And me and my brother not owning bikes, but getting our cycling badges after being taken to the finish point of the ride in a mini-bus and waiting around on our own for a couple of hours in a farmer’s field, waiting for everyone to turn up on their bikes. We! Will! Do! Our! Best! Good times!
Edit: Round our way, Cubs and ‘yoofy’ we’re on the same night (Tuesday). If you went to Cubs, you tended to be a BBC family, and the ITV mob went to the Youth club to drink pop, eat crisps and play table tennis with busted paddles and dented ping-pong balls. [Post edited 29 Oct 2020 10:01]
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All so true and did the same, forgot about the itchy jumpers.
I lived in Suffolk at the time and a big trip out was to the fair at Battersea park and a ride on that wooden rollercoaster that killed 5 in 72. | |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:10 - Oct 29 with 1892 views | HantsR |
I was Red sixer in the 3rd Bromley cubs. Lots of badges including Leaping Wolf and with me as leader, our six won the Bromley and Beckenham cup for the pack. This was quite a big deal at the time and our picture, with me holding the enormous cup was on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times. In fact my picture was in that rag three weeks running, including the week I was voted the "cubbiest cub" and was awarded the Carpenter Shield.
All downhill after that - dobby dooby doo doo.
Actually, just remembered, I helped out our local pack, including HantsR juniors and ran the football team for a few years. |  | | |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:12 - Oct 29 with 1885 views | Mick_S |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:23 - Oct 29 with 1879 views | Konk |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 09:58 - Oct 29 by Mick_S |
You just reminded me - we spent what seemed like hours weeding a front garden in bob-a-job week and got 5p between four of us. Maybe we did a rubbish job. |
You should have tor ched the fu cker's gaff, mate. That is just taking the pi ss.
We spent a whole day clearing this loft - we went home for a sandwich at lunchtime, but that was the only break. Proper cleared a loft, aged about nine, and it involved perching on the top of a rickety old step ladder. For 50p.
Also cleaned the local butcher's van to an insanely high standard inside and out, which took forever and involved a lot of blood. We got 20p each for that. Can still remember the look my mate, Dave, gave me when Ken the butcher handed that over. Not impressed. One of my mates was given a ice lolly stick and a carrier bag, and had to clear up a garden of dog sh it for about 10p.
The flip side was when you'd knock on a door, they'd have nothing really for you to do, but would bung you 50p each for washing-up a couple of mugs or something. Loved those people.
Still, it kept us off the streets, and I did learn my knots. The power went to my head a bit as a sixer. I made everyone bring a hanky and turn up with polished shoes, until there was a mutiny. Standards and all that. Did Scouts for two weeks and biffed it off. | |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:24 - Oct 29 with 1872 views | Konk |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:12 - Oct 29 by Mick_S |
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Hula-hoop badge. | |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:29 - Oct 29 with 1855 views | Metallica_Hoop |
I had the coveted 'Gold Arrow' but hardly any badges. (think I had 7)
It was very funny seeing others with badges down their sleeve but only a bronze or silver. |  |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:37 - Oct 29 with 1847 views | LunarJetman |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 09:40 - Oct 29 by Mick_S |
13th Roxeth, Northolt Road, South Harrow, next to St Gabriel's Club. Friday night meets with my mates and run-outs on the way home. I loved it. Went on summer camp twice and encountered home sickness for the first time in my life. |
5th Roxeth here. Round the back of Rooks Heath High School. Can of coke and a handful of cola bottles for 20p! Those were the days! |  | | |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:39 - Oct 29 with 1843 views | Mick_S |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:37 - Oct 29 by LunarJetman |
5th Roxeth here. Round the back of Rooks Heath High School. Can of coke and a handful of cola bottles for 20p! Those were the days! |
I think you may have run us one night. | |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 11:29 - Oct 29 with 1773 views | wood_hoop |
Glad to see there were others on the board inflicted as a youth with the virtuous teachings, of our elders, and the exploitative nature of some that we soon learnt from an early age. 
One thing different from you cubs was that in the Woodcraft Folk girls were involved as well, my first attempts at impressing the opposite sex and my muscular prowess was doing the sword dance, wooden swords of course, doing some weird folk dance that entailed laying the swords on the floor and entwining so they could all be picked up in the shape of a star with one hand.
Remember an East German group (well before Berlin Wall came down) coming over to visit and stay with various Folk families, some real darlings amongst them and hardly a word of English, soon learnt through sign language that the Cold War was well and truly still in force. | | | |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 11:54 - Oct 29 with 1738 views | Boston |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:12 - Oct 29 by Mick_S |
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The Fallen Saint. | |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 12:45 - Oct 29 with 1697 views | R_from_afar |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 09:58 - Oct 29 by Mick_S |
You just reminded me - we spent what seemed like hours weeding a front garden in bob-a-job week and got 5p between four of us. Maybe we did a rubbish job. |
I wasn't in the cubs or scouts, it wasn't something anyone in my family had ever done, but I think I would have enjoyed it.
Mick, your post reminds me of the chores people had to do when they were youth hostelling. My close mates and I were always lucky, we were asked to do easy things like peeling spuds and sweeping floors. Two school friends were asked to...chop down a tree! This was yonks ago, health and safety wouldn't allow it now I dare say. |  |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 13:01 - Oct 29 with 1663 views | gobbles |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 16:15 - Oct 29 with 1604 views | ted_hendrix |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 10:12 - Oct 29 by Mick_S |
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You get that badge after you've performed gastric band surgery. |  |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 16:49 - Oct 29 with 1578 views | dodge_stoke_r |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 09:55 - Oct 29 by Konk |
Youngest sixer in the fuc king district, mate. To peak at the age of eight is a terrible thing. British Bulldog, crab football, bellowing out the cub’s promise and cubs-saluting the flag, Camping in tents with no fitted ground sheets in the pis sing down rain, sausages done over the fire, games of Kim, itchy jumpers, woggles, silly hats, sock tabs, church parade on Remembrance Sunday, Bob-a-fuc-king Job week with two of you clearing out a loft in some mad Bas tard’s house for 50p. And me and my brother not owning bikes, but getting our cycling badges after being taken to the finish point of the ride in a mini-bus and waiting around on our own for a couple of hours in a farmer’s field, waiting for everyone to turn up on their bikes. We! Will! Do! Our! Best! Good times!
Edit: Round our way, Cubs and ‘yoofy’ we’re on the same night (Tuesday). If you went to Cubs, you tended to be a BBC family, and the ITV mob went to the Youth club to drink pop, eat crisps and play table tennis with busted paddles and dented ping-pong balls. [Post edited 29 Oct 2020 10:01]
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That's pretty much what I remember.( Crab football! That's a term. I haven't heard since the cubs lol). Worked my way up from seconder to sixer! 100th Great Chell. Think I did have a bike though. |  | | |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 18:24 - Oct 29 with 1553 views | 100percent |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 11:29 - Oct 29 by wood_hoop |
Glad to see there were others on the board inflicted as a youth with the virtuous teachings, of our elders, and the exploitative nature of some that we soon learnt from an early age.
One thing different from you cubs was that in the Woodcraft Folk girls were involved as well, my first attempts at impressing the opposite sex and my muscular prowess was doing the sword dance, wooden swords of course, doing some weird folk dance that entailed laying the swords on the floor and entwining so they could all be picked up in the shape of a star with one hand.
Remember an East German group (well before Berlin Wall came down) coming over to visit and stay with various Folk families, some real darlings amongst them and hardly a word of English, soon learnt through sign language that the Cold War was well and truly still in force. |
Strangely enough, this is a lot like my memories too.
I was one of the woodcraft Folk, who with the benefit of hindsight, were probably a bit more hippie-ish than the scouts.
We had some french exchange students come over and I actually fell in love with a girl called Martine Dhiver, who after all this time, probably won't mind me telling everyone that I fingered her behind the huts at our local school. She bought me David Bowie's Life on Mars single and I genuinely cried when she went home.
After that point it all went to sh--t, and i was eventually banned and sent home after setting the aforementioned huts on fire and falling through the roof.
Halcyon days though.... |  | | |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 18:33 - Oct 29 with 1545 views | denhamhoop2 |
I was a Woodcraft folk and yep unlike Scouts girls were included had my first ever snog with a girl called Debbie when we were trying to learn knots. My career ended when we had to go camping and I found out the ground sheet needs to be pegged down. | | | |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 21:13 - Oct 29 with 1494 views | Konk |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 18:24 - Oct 29 by 100percent |
Strangely enough, this is a lot like my memories too.
I was one of the woodcraft Folk, who with the benefit of hindsight, were probably a bit more hippie-ish than the scouts.
We had some french exchange students come over and I actually fell in love with a girl called Martine Dhiver, who after all this time, probably won't mind me telling everyone that I fingered her behind the huts at our local school. She bought me David Bowie's Life on Mars single and I genuinely cried when she went home.
After that point it all went to sh--t, and i was eventually banned and sent home after setting the aforementioned huts on fire and falling through the roof.
Halcyon days though.... |
"We had some french exchange students come over and I actually fell in love with a girl called Martine Dhiver, who after all this time, probably won't mind me telling everyone that I fingered her behind the huts at our local school. She bought me David Bowie's Life on Mars single and I genuinely cried when she went home.
After that point it all went to sh--t, and i was eventually banned and sent home after setting the aforementioned huts on fire and falling through the roof."
Continental love interest, finger-banging, Bowie, arson, crashing through a roof...magnificent. There's a film in there. Or an episode of Grange Hill or Casualty.
I had never heard of the Woodcraft folk - sounds like either the Moomins or Trolls or something that Pete Seeger might have set-up with Sandy Denny. Intrigued. | |
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| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 21:25 - Oct 29 with 1480 views | MickS |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 18:24 - Oct 29 by 100percent |
Strangely enough, this is a lot like my memories too.
I was one of the woodcraft Folk, who with the benefit of hindsight, were probably a bit more hippie-ish than the scouts.
We had some french exchange students come over and I actually fell in love with a girl called Martine Dhiver, who after all this time, probably won't mind me telling everyone that I fingered her behind the huts at our local school. She bought me David Bowie's Life on Mars single and I genuinely cried when she went home.
After that point it all went to sh--t, and i was eventually banned and sent home after setting the aforementioned huts on fire and falling through the roof.
Halcyon days though.... |
That’s not bad. We used to get a spring roll from the Chinese prior to picking our run out teams. | | | |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 21:31 - Oct 29 with 1477 views | Konk |
| alas to dyb dyb dobing on 21:25 - Oct 29 by MickS |
That’s not bad. We used to get a spring roll from the Chinese prior to picking our run out teams. |
Spring roll - jammy fu cker. Mate, I did Judo for two years because I got a biscuit when I got home. Never even got my yellow belt. I was only there for the biscuit. Angela's Ashes eat your heart out.
EDIT: And it wasn't even a chocolate biscuit! Custard cream at best. [Post edited 29 Oct 2020 21:38]
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