Methodist national scout car races, September 1955. Received civic reception, welcome parade. Mr Lomas, Mayor of Bollington; Alfred Clough, clerk to the council; Wilfred Proctor, district scout commissioner; Richard Wright, scout leader.
Categories: Scouts
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St Johns cubs
Photograph taken in front of the Coach House doors at Oak Bank House (now in Oak Bank Drive). For many years after WWII this building was used as the local scout headquarters. In 1983/4 it was restored by Chesney Orme for domestic accommodation.
Middle row 3rd from L is Granville Egerton
Front row 2nd from R is Fred Ratcliffe -
Bollington scout gang show
Back row 3rd from right David Normington
3rd row, 3rd from left John Pleeth. Far right Harry Pleeth, a Londoner who moved to Bollington during WWII, and who became very prominent in the development of the local scout movement, devoting much of his life to them, he died aged 97, still engaged in public activities. His son John Pleeth was for many years a magistrate on the Macclesfield bench.
