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Sudbury & Essex Jamborees
In 1992 the Scouts went on two Jamboree Camps, the first in May held
at Pentlow Hall Farm on the banks of the River Stour for the first
ever Sudbury District Jamboree. A few lucky Scouts had the chance to
accompany Brian Clampin D.C. in his private aircraft. They buzzed over
the site to take aerial photographs of the camp. The second Jamboree
was the Essex International held at The Essex Showground - four
thousand Scouts attended. The boys from Bures made many friends
especially the Girl Guides who were camping next to us. We caught the
boys having a kissing contest in the mess tent one night - this was
won apparently by Joel Furniss! Lee Underhill spent seven hours in
casualty after he had sprained his ankle trying to impress the girls
at long jump.
Robert York was presented with the Chief Scout Award by Brian Clampin,
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Memorial Tree
In 1993 Ken Janes took over the job of Cub ScoutLeader with Mark
Pickford and help from Ken's wife - Brenda. Sadly the following year,
Ken became very ill and died in February 1995. We held a Memorial Tree
Planting Service at the Scout Headquarters, we planted a flowering
Crab. Graham Boyce becomes an Assistant Leader and follows in his
brother footsteps.
Fishing Competition
Our Summer Camp in August was held at Barningham Hall, Matlaske (near
Holt), North Norfolk. We did many activities canoeing, fishing on the
private lake, aerial runway and bivoucs. The fishing did not prove to
be very special as there was too much noise from the Scouts. Karl
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Russell was not very happy
about catching nothing all day. They asked Nigel Norton if they could
wake him up at 4.00am in the morning the next day. Nigel said yes
thinking they would sleep through to 7, but to Nigel's delight two
heads appeared at the door of our tent the next morning and up he got.
They caught many fish (perch and roach), Karl won the fishing
competition on camp.
Sand in food
We held a Patrol Camp at Little Bevells, Bures in May 1994. For our
dinner on Saturday evening we decided to cook Hawaii |
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style. We dug a very large pit, luckily it was very sandy and did not
take long. We acquired a old shopping trolley and used the
upper cage, we put hessian sacks around the outside to protect the
food from burning. Meat, potatoes, chopped veg were wrapped into
parcels using cabbage leaves. A fire was lit early in the afternoon to
get hot embers. The cage was lowered into the hole and was covered
totally using the sacks and were left for three hours. By the evening
every one was hungry and the cage was pulled to the top.
After opening the parcels we found that the food was burnt and sand
had got in some how! There was lots of moans and groans, by this time
it was also pouring with rain, cold and getting dark. We decided to
cut our loses and go and buy some fish and chips to the delight of the
boys.
Chief Scout Award & Chief Scout Challenge
Duncan Baird and Jamie Russell received their Chief Scout |
Award from District Commissioner Heather Ellliott in April 1995.
Duncan & Jamie walked the River Stour Valley walk from Newmarket to
Cattlawade Bridge - a distance of 62 miles over 3 days and did a
project on 'The Changing River',. They then gave a talk to the troop
on their adventure.
Girls in Scouts
In 1997, the Scout and Cub Group decided to go mixed. All members of
the group voted and parents also had their say - the change was
implemented by Group Leader, Alan Munson. Seven girls joined the group
that Easter. Brenda Janes and Jan Aries joined the Scout Group and
become Assistants. An additional toilet was added in the tin hut by
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