Vintage Nottingham Boy Scout Sleeve Uniform Patches Lenton Abbey, BSA, UK

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Vintage Nottingham Boy Scout Sleeve Uniform Patches Lenton Abbey, BSA, UK, Brittan, British Scouting, looks like a hiking merit badge as well. Nice UK collectibles from the past.
There are records of Boy Scouts and Scouting groups from 1900. The
Boys' Brigade
began its Scouting scheme in 1906.
Scouting
is usually considered
[
citation needed
]
to have started on 1 August 1907 with a camp run by
Robert Baden-Powell
on
Brownsea Island
. Thereafter the publishers C. Arthur Pearson Limited and Baden-Powell began promoting Scouting in Britain, and
Scouting for Boys
was published, initially in six fortnightly installments from January 1908 and then in complete book form. The book was followed by
The Scout
magazine from April 1908. Boys began forming Scout patrols and flooding the C. Arthur Pearson Limited's Scout office and Baden-Powell with requests for assistance.
The Scouting movement developed rapidly from here, in Britain, the British Empire, among English speaking people and the rest of the world.
The first Scout Patrols and Troops were formed in the
United Kingdom
in 1907.
[1]
There are a number of claimants to be the first troop. As Scouting was a movement and not an organisation, there was initially no central organisation. The publishers C. Arthur Pearson Limited sold registration cards to subscribers of its magazine. Numerous local or regional Boy Scouts Associations were formed and several national Scouting organisations were formed in the United Kingdom including the
Boys' Brigade
Scouts,
Chums Scout Patrols
, YMCA Boy Scouts,
British Boy Scouts
, Church Scout Patrols, London Diocesan Boy Scout Corps, Boys' Life Brigade Scouts, National Peace Scouts,
The Boy Scouts Association
and Salvation Army Boy Scouts (re-organized in 1914 as the Life-Saving Scouts of the Salvation Army). The Boy Scouts Association was formed in 1910 and does not acknowledge any single troop as being the first. Unfortunately, The Boy Scouts Association issued backdated registrations. The Scout Association maintains a list of all the Scout Troops who
claim
to have started in 1908.
[2]
Originally a farming village, Lenton Abbey took its name from the main farm, itself named in reference to nearby
Lenton Priory
.
In 1831, Lord Middleton of
Wollaton Hall
acquired the estate and leased it to a successful Nottingham lace merchant, Isaac Fisher. Later the estate was sold to the industrialists and mine owning family Readett-Bayley. Sir Henry Dennis Readett-Bayley was a war hero who, with financial support from other mine owners, founded the Dennis Bayley Fund to transport wounded soldiers to safety.
[2]
In 1925, the land was sold to the Council for redevelopment as a large housing estate.
[3]
A prominent former structure was the Essoldo cinema,and later a snooker hall designed in an Art Deco style by
Alfred J. Thraves
, a prominent local cinema architect. It had been demolished by 1994 and is now the site of an office block known as 'Priory Court.'
1st Church Kirk, Church near Accrington Lancashire. Formed 1907. Baden Powell formed a link with Accrington during his opening of the Ambulance Drill Hall in 1904.
[
citation needed
]
1st Cheltenham (Highbury) started in early 1908, they were visited by Baden-Powell on 13th January 1908 and by March 1908 the Troop was meeting regularly.
[6]
The 1st New Cross (The Greys) Scout Group was formed 17 January 1908 but was not registered until 26 May 1908 by Baden Powell before he even registered his own group.
[7]
There is an entry in Baden-Powell's diary on 4 February 1908 which mentions a Scout Troop in
Nottingham
.