Retro: bumper collection of 42 Wigan scout pictures 1950s-1980s

By Charles Graham

Published 18th Jun 2024, 04:55 BST

We received lots of feedback and big audiences for an online gallery of Wigan girl-guides from the 1960s to 1980s last week, and here is one featuring Wigan scouts going back even further to the 1950s.

Plenty of memories are sure to be stirred up by this collection.

9. February 1969 and members of 26th Wigan Scout and Guide groups played host to a party for mentally handicapped children at Willows Home in Newton-le-Willows, with two members of Warrington Pipe Band joining in the fun

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10. Cutting the cake to celebrate the diamond jubilee year of the Wigan Grammar School Scout troop is founder member Harold Lowe in December 1968

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11. March 1969 and members of the 17th Wigan Scout Troop with recently gained awards

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12. Wigan scouts who won the Greater Manchester West County Scout Council Camping Competition Trophy in 1986

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Retro: bumper collection of 42 Wigan scout pictures 1950s-1980s

9. February 1969 and members of 26th Wigan Scout and Guide groups played host to a party for mentally handicapped children at Willows Home in Newton-le-Willows, with two members of Warrington Pipe Band joining in the fun

10. Cutting the cake to celebrate the diamond jubilee year of the Wigan Grammar School Scout troop is founder member Harold Lowe in December 1968

11. March 1969 and members of the 17th Wigan Scout Troop with recently gained awards

12. Wigan scouts who won the Greater Manchester West County Scout Council Camping Competition Trophy in 1986

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