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They enjoyed their midnight meal so much that they determined then and there to form a club and have such entertainments periodically. Instant technical support and much more! Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element. And I can remember, they used to have music, a pop group or something come along, a local band and I can remember one year, the group actually being put on top of the old air raid shelter, which was then used as a shed for the tractor to cut the grass on the recreation ground. During the summer, no problem, the summer holiday came, and during that Ken Laws and Alan Bloomfield, who were Committee members, had been for many a year, came along to me and said " I understand that you’ve been helping out at cubs." I said "Yes..". Camelsdale being in Sussex also came under Midhurst. But they actually found someone from Camelsdale who would come along. And I suppose my best mate within that troop would have been Neil Hedges, who was a Camelsdale scout. As the First Fernhurst troop of scouts we weren’t ..nobody had very many badges pinned to their arms.

I believe that before that the First Fernhurst troop was quite an important troop. Bob Lambert who lived down in Ropes Bottom, Colin’s cousin, What is a billiards club he was troop leader. I remember right at the end of the war it was suggested, on VJ Day when the war ended, it was suggested that we build a big bonfire in the cricket field down here and three of us, including Bob Lambert I think, went to Mr Dudman and said could we borrow the scout Union Jack. The parents went, and there again I think George Lambert and his coach came into use. He said that he didn’t think that was a very good idea anyway and so three of us, I remember came up to start building a bonfire. He helped to start the Youth Club, didn’t he? When did that start up and… But he helped; Reg used to come along and help. But I did scouts as well, with Reg Parkhouse , I was involved with Bunny Welland and Malcolm Gilbert. Scouts were having problems and a chap called David Quinnell from Henley Village, a friend of mine, took on scouts for quite a while and took up uniform as well, like I did.

They had a village meeting and then they were rather in a stalemate situation when three of them got together and as somebody walked passed the door where they were meeting, JGC saw him and he called him in and he said I will guarantee up to£1000. Outside Edge which was a cricket play - a play about cricket and cricket teas - quite appropriate for the village. Of course, that field where it sits, well it doesn’t sit in a field now, it sits in a wood, but it was a field when I remember it, it was on the edge of a field and the field was sloping and was always used as a sledging field. Well his father, Bob Lambert’s father built that house. But how can we find where this house lies? Finding that their secret was out, and that their prisoner was not to be coerced, the two villains with the girl had fled away at a few hours notice from the furnished house which they had hired, having first, as they thought, taken vengeance both upon the man who had defied and the one who had betrayed them. I’m now playing cricket with some of the boys that I actually had as cubs, which is a horrible thought, but there we go!

I’m just trying to think. I think I’m right in saying this. I think we did occasionally, but I can't really remember. I think we all took it in turns to choose. The last two Akelas that I had were Betty Mariner and Mrs Hunt, I cannot think of her name, Betty Mariner being from Dawes Farm. It had also been used for cattle grazing and then when Blackdown Estate was being sold they first of all used to rent it from the estate for the first 40 years and it wasn’t until 1942, surprisingly, that the actual field was being bought. My first memories of the Optimists are of being a schoolgirl in Happiest Days of your Life which would probably be the late 1960s. And the Optimists were a very friendly group. I was able to enjoy all their efforts and the Youth Club then seemed to be for older children than the youth club in the village these days. Father-in-law having acquired the Recreation Ground and seen that functioning properly, he was then persuaded to become Secretary of the Village Hall which was ailing. The match at St. James's Hall in London was attended by Edward VII, the Prince of Wales.