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This was always treated with utmost confidentiality to
avoid embarrassment; yet another part of the Boy Scout ideal
of “Training for Life”.

BACK AT CAMP
This brings us back to Summer Camp 1966. Memorable if
only for the rain.
We did manage to give the boys a good time and they
visited interesting locations like “Slimbridge”, Peter Scott’s
famous wildfowl trust; Bristol City and Prinknash Abbey.

Prinknash was a revelation as the troop had visited the
same site in 1958 to find the monks beginning to build a huge
abbey church which had reached only four courses from the
ground and was deemed to take a further hundred years or so.
Their income was largely from unique pottery with dark
grey coloured finish and red clay from their own site. In 1958
ladies were not allowed onto the site.
By 1966, things had changed dramatically. Lady visitors
were being allowed and the cathedral church was almost

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