Jay Howitt's Bottesford Scouts scrapbook Newspaper cuttings and other items about Bottesford Scouts in the mid 1950s, scanned from a scrapbook that was kept by Mr Jay Howitt, who was Scout Leader in Bottesford at the time. The images start with the first page of the book and work through to the last.
Creator NFO
Place Bottesford
Contributor Bagnall, Jill
Reference number BOT/202 BOT/202/026
The Scouts and Cubs, and at least on Guide, on stage at the Gang Show
BOT/202/027
During the performance, probably at the Gang Show
BOT/202/028
A recruitment medical, part of the Gang Show
BOT/202/029
Scouts meeting senior leaders of the movement.
BOT/202/030
Cutting recording award of Queen’s Scout award for J.Topps of Bottesford.
BOT/202/031
Caption to a picture of award winners – separate from the picture itself.
BOT/202/032
Two pictures of the Bottesford Scouts and Guides Field-day
BOT/202/033
Article describing the Scouts and Guides Field-day
BOT/202/034
Grantham Journal article: Scouts praised for initiative after they found a burst gas main in Bottesford.
BOT/202/035
Newspaper article entitled “Scouts were nearly blown out of their Whitsun camp”
BOT/202/036
An airman “Clem”
BOT/202/037
Neil Tinckley, Anthomay Whatton and John Howitt receiving the Queen’s Award from D.C. W.E.B. Read.
BOT/202/038
Bottesford Scout Jack Hutchinson receiving his Queen’s Award from District Commissioner W.E.B. Read.
BOT/202/039
A Howitt family visit to Skegness
BOT/202/040
A Scout parade in Grantham
BOT/202/041
Mick Gamble receiving gthe Bob-A-Job trophy from the Mayor
BOT/202/042
Bottesford Scouts on camp
BOT/202/043
“Bottesford raised over £67 in Bob-A-Job week
BOT/202/044
“Grantham Scouts’ Bob-A-Job week”
BOT/202/045
“For a new Scout HQ at Bottesford”
BOT/202/046
Photograph of a formal dinner (who, where, when?)
BOT/202/047
The typescript of an unpublished poem composed by Jay Howitt, entitled: “Jay” Howitt’s Poetical Masterpiece Composed on the Occasion of ...
BOT/202/048
This image is the continuation of BOT/202/47, showing the final section of “Jay” Howitt’s poem typescript.
BOT/202/049
A photograph of Ron Cooke, “The Colonel”, at a Scouts’ Jamboree
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