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CHAPTER 10
SCOUT CAMP TRIPS

Before finally leaving my time at “The Garage”, it is worth
mentioning the time that the Sea Scouts went on summer camp
to Gloucestershire.
Ruth and I had been involved with this unit since the mid
1950’s and we were both still there. By now I had become
Scout Leader and Ruth was Cub Leader or “Akela”.
During my earlier years the scouts had held a summer
camp at the Gloucestershire County Scout Camp site at
Cranham.

CRANHAM
This beautiful village was set in a deep quiet secluded
valley about 10 miles East of Gloucester. A small single track
road passed through, dropping steeply to the valley floor from
high hills on each side. The centre of the village comprised the
County Scout HQ itself. An impressive barn type structure built
in “Cotswold stone” together with a group of traditional stone
out buildings. The whole, surrounded by an arrangement of
fields allotted as individual campsites.

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