Log of the 85th Sheffield St. John's & Totley Orphanage Wolf Cub Pack 1927-45

We would like to thank Christopher Rodgers for bringing this cub log to our attention and Andrew Jones of the Sheffield Scout Archives for helping us to bring it to publication.

During their time in Grove Road, Totley Rise (1951-1959), the Rodgers family was involved with 85th the Sheffield Scout Group at St. John's, Abbeydale. Christopher's parents, Jean Lusby and George Norman Rodgers (known as Norman) were married at St. John's by Rev. T. M. Archer in December 1942. Jean became an Assistant Cub Mistress with the 85th in 1956. Norman had started with the Scouts at age 11 and then moved on to Rover Scouts. In 1958 he was appointed Group Scout Master of the 85th Troop. Christopher and his elder brother Stephen were members of the Cub Pack during the 1950s. The log must have come into the family's possession at that time. Later the family moved to Ipswich where Christopher's father became a Scout District Commissioner for about ten years and his brother became a Queen's Scout and then a Rover Scout.

Following the death of Christopher's parents, the log was put away in the loft with other family photographs and papers and there it lay undisturbed for 23 years until Christopher came across it by chance whilst looking for photographs of their house on Grove Road to help Totley History Group with a separate enquiry.

When Christopher said he was looking for a permanent home for the log, we suggested that he contact Andrew Jones who has helped us before with the history of Scouting in Totley. Andrew was immediately interested in bringing the log to the attention of a wider audience. The log is interesting from a number of standpoints: Scouting history in Sheffield, Totley local and family history, and also in the wider context of the social and cultural history of the time.

Sheffield Scout Archives and Totley History Group hoped to jointly fund the publication of the log as an A4 booklet and Andrew put in a lot of work to design and advance the idea, see his draft cover illustration above. Unfortunately the costs of such a publication would probably outweigh the income from sales and so it was decided instead to publish the log as a PDF download, supported by both ourselves and by Sheffield Scout Archives. We ask you to please respect the copyright information on page 1. 

We considered producing a transcription of the log to read alongside images of the pages but decided against this as the handwriting is perfectly legible and a printed transcription might only detract from the original. However, we have fully indexed the log to make it easier to locate references to individuals, places and events. 

Some of our readers may have a PDF viewer embedded within their browser whilst others may need to download the file and open it in a standalone viewer like Adobe Reader. In either case, it is possible to navigate quickly to the desired page by simply typing its number into the box displaying the current page number.

Biographical Notes

The first 84½ pages of the log were written by the Cubmaster of the 85th Sheffield Pack, Alice Mary Dorothy Partington. Dorothy Partington was born in Sheffield on 1 January 1907, the second child of Robert Wilfred Partington, an official with Midland Bank Limited, and his wife Elizabeth Gertrude Heap. Robert Partington was an executive of the Sheffield Boy Scouts' Association and also the treasurer of the 85th Sheffield. Dorothy was only 20 when the log begins and she remained the Cubmaster of the 85th Sheffield Pack until September 1935 when the pressure of also being Wolf Cub Commissioner forced her to resign. In the 1939 Register, she was living with her parents at Sherwood Glen, opposite the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet. Dorothy never married and died in Belper on 29 March 2009 at the ripe old age of 102.

The Scoutmaster at the 85th Sheffield from 1919 until 1940 was Mary Andrews who had been born on 16 March 1886 at Wortley Forge, near Penistone, the younger of two children born to Thomas Andrews, a civil engineer and steelmaster, and his wife Mary Hannah Stanley. Mary Andrews followed a medical career becoming a Member of the the Royal College of Surgeons (England) and a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. Perhaps her choice of career was infuenced by her uncle, Dr. William Dyson, who was one of the foremost physicians in Sheffield. During WW1, Dr. Andrews was one of the doctors stationed at the V.A.D. hospital at St. John's Church Rooms.

In June 1920 she accepted the appointment of Medical Officer to the Cherrytree Orphanage and stayed in the role for a decade. Not only did she inspect the health of potential entrants and attend to the ailments of individual orphans but she reported regularly to the Executive Committee on the general state of the health of the children, made recommendations for improvements in their clothing and diet, arranged for them to go to summer camp, and escorted orphans to places of training or employment that she had found herself and, for those emigrating, to their ports of embarkation. In August 1929, when an outbreak of scarlet fever became epidemic, Dr. Andrews insisted that the children should all be taken to camp in Filey so that the Orphanage could be closed and properly disinfected. Many an orphan would later pay tribute to the role that Dr. Andrews played in their early welfare and development (see Eric C. Hill).

For many orphans, Scouting was to play an important part in their development. Mary Andrews had set up a Boys Brigade in 1907 for the sons of the men at Wortley Forge and in 1914 she had started the 55th Wortley and Thurgoland Scout Group before moving to live at Beauchief. She became Scoutmaster of the 85th Sheffield Troop in 1919. Dr. Andrews was appointed Assistant Scout HQ Commissioner for Special Troops and helped set up a Troop at Oakwood Hall Sanitorium in 1929 and a Post Troop for disabled boys in 1930, providing individual training and coaching by correspondence. Moving to live at Shatton, near Bamford, Dr. Andrews became firstly the Deputy Chief Air Raid Warden for Chapel-en-le-Frith Rural District and in October 1939 its Chief, the only female A.R.P. Chief in the North, and in charge of the largest rural district in England. She dug with her own hands a big air raid shelter, to Home Office pattern, in the grounds of her own home and demonstrated to others how it could be done.

A keen writer and member of the Buxton Writer's Circle as well as a student of local history and archaeology, Dr. Andrews published at least two books: A Child's History of Sheffield and A Scout's Short History of Sheffield. In 1955 she had the honour of opening the Industrial Museum at Wortley Ironworks, where her ancestors had lived and worked. Dr. Mary Andrews died aged 92 at Ranmoor Grange Nursing Home, Sheffield, on 10 December 1978, never having married.

It was as District Commissioner, a role that he occupied from 1920 to 1938, that Albert Harland came into frequent contact with the 85th Sheffield Wolf Cub Pack. Albert Harland was born in Ruislip, Middlesex, on 6 September 1869, the fourth of seventeen children born to Rev. Albert Augustus Harland, the Vicar of Harefield, and his wife Louisa Ellen Wilson, daughter of the Sheffield snuff manufacturer Henry Wilson. After an education at Temple Grove Grammar School, East Sheen, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, young Albert joined his grandfather's firm of Joseph and Henry Wilson Limited of Westbrook Mills, Sharrow Vale, rising to become its Managing Director.

Albert Harland had a distinguished career holding many public offices. He was first elected to Sheffield Council in 1902 serving until 1911. In 1923 he was re-elected to Council but stood down the following year to concentrate on a Parliamentary career, having been elected as Conservative M.P. for Ecclesall, an office which he fulfilled until 1929. Thereafter he was elected for a third period on the Council in until 1936, serving from 1932 as an Alderman. 

Albert Harland had been interested in the Scout Movement from its earliest days and had been instrumental in founding the Sheffield Local Association of Boy Scouts in 1909. During a long service with the Scouts he held almost every position in the Association, including Chairman, Honorary Treasury and District Commissioner. Throughout the period covered by the log, Albert Harland was a leading member of the Executive Committee of Cherrytree Orphanage and a strong supporter of Dr. Andrews. In 1944 he was given the Silver Wolf, the highest award in Scouting, by the Chief Scout. Albert Harland never married and died on 25 February 1957 in Sheffield Royal Hospital aged 87.

List of Photographs

Photo 1. Page 6. Sixers, Victor Crookes, Leslie Hill, Dennis Booth, Leslie Kelly
Photo 2. Page 6. Victor Crookes, Leslie Hill
Photo 3. Page 6. Geoffrey Steer, Leslie Kelly, Dennis Booth, Victor Crookes, Dick Dexter, Leslie Hill; Douglas Nunn, Billy Carnall, Jack Earl, Kenyon Stow, Harry Haythorne
Photo 4. Page 21. On The Way To Stanage. John Lawton, David Cartledge, Billy Edwards, Akela (Miss A.M.D. Partington), Cyril Mather
Photo 5. Page 21. On Stanage Edge. Dr. Mary Andrews, Bill Rodgers, Lawrie Taylor
Photo 6. Page 21. Miss J. Davenport, Higgar Tor
Photo 7. Page 21. The View From Camp. Callow Farm
Photo 8. Page 21. John Lawton, Billy Edwards, Dr. Mary Andrews, Bill Rodgers, Lawrie Taylor, David Cartledge, Cyril Mather
Photo 9. Page 33. Mr. Albert Harland, District Commissioner; Mr. A. H. Muirhead, Organiser; Mr. P.B. Brown, Master Cutler; Captain W. Harland, Chairman, Sheffield S.A.; The Earl of Harewood, County President; Canon Bracewell, Rover Commissioner; Lieut.-Colonel J.H. Leslie, County Commissioner.
Photo 10. Page 40. The loft
Photo 11. Page 40. The loft from hill
Photo 12. Page 41. The Blue Wolves. Lawrence Clarkson, Akela (Miss Partington), Kenneth Kelly, Jack Mayos, Kenneth Waddington, Lawrence Bateman, Dennis Horley.
Photo 13. Page 41. Black Wolves. R. Webster, Kim (Miss Davenport) Kenneth Addlington, Bob Speight, Albert Bailey, Geoffrey Sadler.
Photo 14. Page 41. R. Webster, Kenneth Warrington, Bob Speight
Photo 15. Page 42. On the sands
Photo 16. Page 43. Akela, (Miss Partington)
Photo 17. Page 43. Kim, (Miss Davenport)
Photo 18. Page 44. The Lane Down to the Sea
Photo 19. Page 45. From the loft window
Photo 20. Page 46. Alec Betts, Kenneth Kelly, Bob Speight, Cyril Mather, Clifford Grainger, Kenneth Addlington, Lawrence Clarkson, Ronald Webster; Walter Stow, Fred Mayos, Billy Stubbs, Eric Moorhouse, Dennis Horley, Kenneth Warrington; Albert Bailey, Jack Mayos, Lawrence Bateman.
Photo 21. Page 50. Honeysykes Farm
Photo 22. Page 50. The Loft Steps
Photo 23. Page 51. Thorp Salvin Castle
Photo 24 Page 52. Damming the Stream
Photo 25. Page 52. Damming the Stream
Photo 26. Page 52. Blackberrying
Photo 27. Page 52. The loft and stackyard
Photo 28. Page 53. The view from the loft
Photo 29: Page 54. Red Wolves. Akela (Miss Partington); Mayos, Lawrence Bateman, Albert Bailey; Eric Moorhouse, Walter Stow.
Photo 30. Page 55. Loading up
Photo 31. Page 55. Lawrence Clarkson, Lawrence Bateman, Albert Bailey, Kenneth Warrington, Jack Mayos; Harold Clarkson, Stow, Eric Moorhouse, Fred Mayos, Dennis Horley.
Photo 32. Page 56. Six Cubs seated.
Photo 33. Page 56. Seven Cubs seated.
Photo 34. Page 63. Fred Johnson, Lawrence Bateman; Albert Bailey, Donald Chambers; Eric Moorhouse, Walter Stow.
Photo 35. Page 63. Lawrence Clarkson, Kenneth Warrington; Harold Clarkson, Miss B. Cooper, Kim (Miss Davenport), Dennis Hawley; Fred Mayos, George Hearson.
Photo 36. Page 64. Boys on the beach.
Photo 37. Page 66. Whitby Cross & Parish Church
Photo 38. Page 66. Whitby Abbey
Photo 39. Page 67. Boys on shore.
Photo 40. Page 67. Boys paddling.
Photo 41 . Page 74. Boys in red indian costumes.
Photo 42. Page 74. Boys dressed in red indian costumes.
Photo 43. Page 74. Boys in red indian costumes.
Photo 44. Page 75. Boys in red indian costumes.
Photo 45. Page 77. Boys sitting eating.
Photo 46. Page 78. Plague cottages, Eyam.
Photo 47. Page 78. View of the church tower, Eyam.
Photo 48. Page 81. View of Castleton.
Photo 49. Page 81. Boys walking up Winnats Pass.
Photo 50. Page 82. Photo of hills, possibly Mam Tor.
Photo 51. Page 82. Cross and memorial at rear of Nag's Head Garage, Castleton.
Photo 52. Page 83. York Minster.
Photo 53. Page 84. Car in front of walls.
Photo 54. Page 90. King Richard's Knights.
Photo 55. Page 90. Lady Mayoress addresses the Cubs
Photo 56. Page 90. Friar Tuck & Bridal Party, Dennis Walton, Norman White, Derek Wilkin, Fred Hearson, Ronald Benton
Photo 57. Page 90. Allan-a-Dale, Bride & Bridesmaids, Dennis Walton, Norman White, Fred Hearson, Ronald Benton
Photo 58. Page 92. Norman White, Ronald Benton, Derek Wilkin, Stanley Ashton, Michael Armytage, Fred Hearson.
Photo 59. Page 92. 5 Cubs sitting on steps. .
Photo 60. Page 92. Akela (Miss Barker), Derek Wilkin, Norman White; Mysa (Miss Partington), Fred Hearson, Michael Armytage, Ronald Benton.
Photo 61. Page 96. Three scouts with drums, crowd in the rain.
Photo 62. Page 102. Bean Bag Relay Team, Stanley Ashton, Dennis Walton, Fred Hearson; Michael Armytage, Peter Simpkin.
Photo 63. Page 102. "Stars" Relay Team, Bryan Mottram, Norman White, John Irving; Ronald Benton, Kenneth Mottram, George Winn.
Photo 64. Page 104. Cubs marching behind the leader and flag.
Photo 65. Page 104. Cubs dressed as Scottish Soldiers.
Photo 66. Page 104. Cubs dressed as Scottish Soldiers with boy holding sword. .
Photo 67. Page 105. Mysa (Miss Partington) in the Bungalow.
Photo 68. Page 105. Bryan Mottram, John Trickett, John Irving, Kenneth Mottram, Bagheera (Miss Wynn)
Photo 69. Page 105. John Irving, Bryan Mottram, John Trickett, Stanley Ashton, Kenneth Mottram.
Photo 70. Page 105. Boys playing cricket.
Photo 71. Page 105. Ready to be off
Photo 72. Page 109. The early morning wash. Leonard Coates, John, Stanley Ashton.
Photo 73. Page 109. Getting ready for breakfast. Bryan Mottram, Kenneth Mottram, John, Derek Stevenson.
Photo 74. Page 109. Here they all are.
Photo 75. Page 114. Large Rally of Scouts and Cubs.
Photo 76. Page 116. Blurred picture of 6 Cubs.
Photo 77. Page 116. Clearer picture of 6 Cubs.
Photo 78. Page 116. Cubs and leader on sea shore.
Photo 79. Page 137. On Tour with the Chief Scout. The Chief Scout (Lord Somers), with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Sheffield (Councillor Luther F. Milner and Mrs. Luther F. Milner) and other members of Lord Somers' party, arriving at the Boy Scout Rally at Farm Grounds, Sheffield.
Photo 80. Page 137. Chief Scout, Lord Somers (on left), with the County Commissioner, Captain H.E.G. West, talking with Mr. T.C. Dawson, hon. secretary of Tankersley Park Golf Club.
Photo 81. Page 148. Rover Scouts from eight of the United Nations who are attending the World Rover Conference in Sheffield.
Photo 82. Page 149. Prince Bernhard taking the salute at the Rover Scouts and Guides parade at the City Hall, Sheffield.
Photo 83. Page 162. Scouts and Cubs marching behind a band.
Photo 84. Page 170. Some of the audience of Scouts and relatives watching L. Du Garde Peach's Scout Pageant, "Blazing the Trail of To-morrow."
Photo 85. Page 170. Lord Rowallan, the Chief Scout, speaking at the close of the Rally, attended by 4,000 Scouts from all parts of South Yorkshire, in Abbeydale Park, Sheffield.
Photo 86. Page 170. Chief Scout. Lord Rowallan the new Chief Scout, photographed with patrol leaders.
Photo 87. Page 172. Mowgli (Roger Needham) running to fetch the Chief Scout (Lord Rowallan)
Photo 88. Page 172. Mowgli (Roger Needham) bringing the Chief Scout for the Cub Greeting "The Grand Howl".
Photo 89. Page 172. Cubs marching in for the "Grand Howl".
Photo 90. Page 172. Ready for the "Grand Howl".
Photo 91. Page 173. The Chief Scout (Lord Rowallan) with Rovers in attendance.
Photo 92. Page 173. Snap taken by Michael Hutchings of Akela (Miss Barker) of the 85th in the midst of Cubs getting ready to go home.

85th Sheffield Wolf Cub Index

Dates of joining and leaving the Pack and page references in the log.

Adams, Jack (Bef 01SEP27 to ) 4-5
Addlington, Kenneth (14OCT29 to ) 22, 40-41, 46
Addlington, Rhuben (11MAR35 to ) 79
Armytage, Michael (08JUN36 to SEP37 Left the area) 87, 89, 92, 100, 102, 107
Ashmore, Graham (Bef 25AUG45 to ) 166-167
Ashton, Stanley (24FEB36 to 25NOV38 to Troop) 86, 92, 100, 102, 105, 107, 109, 118-119
Atkin, Stephen (21JUL30 to ) 26
Bailey, Albert (02FEB31 to 23OCT33 to Troop) 37, 40-41, 46-47, 54-55, 57-59, 63, 68
Barnes, R. (18MAR44 to ) 154
Bateman, Lawrence (17MAR30 to 14MAY34 to Troop) 24, 26, 28, 40-41, 46, 54-55, 57-59, 63, 68, 70, 73
Benton, Ronald (03JUN35 to ) 80, 88-92, 98, 102, 107-108, 118, 122
Bestwick, Bernard (Bef 01SEP27 to ) 3, 8
Betts, Alec (14OCT29 to 25APR32 To Troop) 22, 37, 39, 46, 48-49
Booth, Dennis (Bef 01SEP27 to 14JAN29 to Troop) 3, 5-7, 11, 14-15
Bowie, John (18JAN37 to ) 98, 101, 107
Bowler, Edward (01APR44 to ) 154
Bowley, Jack (29JAN34 to 01MAY34 to Totley Rise Methodist Pack) 70-71
Bownes, Tony (Bef MAR44 to ) 154-155, 164, 166-168
Bradbury, Dennis (20FEB39 to 29AUG42 To Troop) 121, 128-129, 132, 135, 138, 140, 145
Carnall, Billy (Bef 01SEP27 to )3, 6-7, 14
Cartledge, David (07NOV27 to 17MAR30 Left area) 5, 9, 21-22, 24
Chambers, Donald (28NOV32 to ) 56, 63-64
Chapman, Douglas (16DEC29 to ) 22
Clark, Ronnie (MAY40 to 25SEP43 to Troop) 128, 133, 135, 148, 151
Clarkson, Harold (26OCT31 to 30SEP35 to Troop) 46, 55-58, 63, 65, 69, 73, 80, 85
Clarkson, Lawrence (29SEP30 to 02JUL34 to Troop) 30, 40-41, 46, 48, 55, 57, 59, 63, 68, 70, 73, 75
Coates, Leonard (02DEC35 to ) 85, 107, 109
Cooper, Alfred (10SEP28 to 01JUN31 to Troop) 14, 26, 38
Cooper, Peter (bef MAR39 to ) 122, 128-129
Copley, Neville (03MAR45 to ) 160
Cox, Frank (10MAY41 to ) 133
Cox, Raymond (22MAR41 to 29AUG42 To Troop) 132-133, 138, 141, 145
Crookes, Victor (Bef 01SEP27 to 14JAN29 to Troop) 3-8, 14-15
Davies, John (20FEB39 to ) 121, 128
Dexter, Dick (Unknown to 31OCT27 to Troop) 5-6
Doncaster, Michael (Bef 01SEP27 to ) 4, 14
Doncaster, Richard (Bef 01SEP27 to ) 3, 7
Dyson, Peter (Bef 25AUG45 to ) 166
Earl, Jack (Bef 01SEP27 to 27MAR30 to Kirk Burton Pack) 3, 6-7, 14, 25
Edwards, Billy (12NOV28 to ) 14, 21
Edwards, Roy (03MAR40 to ) 126, 128-129
Fairest, Barrie [JAN43 to ) 145, 147, 153, 156, 161
Firth, Peter (02NOV36 to ) 95, 107
Freer, Jack (20FEB39 to 27FEB39 Left the area) 121
Gill, F. (Unknown to 19MAR28 To Troop) 9
Gill, Ernest (Bef 01SEP27 to ) 3, 14
Gomm, Richard (15JUL41 to 10JUN44 to Troop) 135, 147, 153, 155
Grainger, Clifford (21JUL30 to 18OCT31 to St. Paul's Pack) 26, 46
Green, Albert (Bef 09JAN28 to ) 7, 14
Green, Tommy (Bef 01SEP27 to 01SEP30 Crossed off register) 4, 30
Green, Vincent (12NOV28 to 01SEP30 Crossed off register) 14, 30
Hall, Rex (Bef 04DEC43 to ) 152, 154, 161, 164
Hancock, Ernest (09JAN34 to ) 69
Hassall, John (02DEC35 to ) 85
Hassall, Peter (20FEB39 to ) 121
Hawley, Dennis (29SEP30 to 01APR35 to Troop) 30, 40-41, 46, 49, 55, 57, 63, 65, 69-70, 80
Hawthorne, Harry (Bef 01SEP27 to ) 3, 5-6, 14-15
Hearson, Fred (Bef 20JUN36 to Aft OCT38) 88-90, 92, 98, 100-103, 118
Hearson, George (03APR33 to 11NOV35 to Troop) 58, 63, 69, 71, 85
Hill, Leslie (Bef 01SEP27 to ) 3, 5-6, 14
Hinman, William (Bef 01SEP27 to ) 3, 8
Hitchcock, Stanley (01APR44 to ) 154
Hobson, Philip (Bef 12 MAR 45 to ) 161, 165-167
Holbrey, Derek (14SEP40 to ) 129, 133, 135
Holding, Keith (10MAY41 to ) 133
Hudson, Donald (14SEP40 to 29AUG42 To Troop) 129, 133, 145
Hutchings, Michael (18AUG45 to ) 165, 173
Hutchings, S. (DEC38 to ) 119
Irving, David (15MAR41 to ) 131, 133, 146
Irving, John (30MAR36 to ) 86, 89, 100-103, 105, 112, 118
Jackson, Neal (22MAR41 to ) 132-133
Jackson, P (bef MAR39 to ) 122
Johnson, Fred (06FEB33 to 23OCT33 to Troop) 58-59, 63, 68
Kelly, Kenneth (04NOV29 to 01JUL32 to Troop) 22, 25-26, 37, 39-41, 46, 48-49
Kelly, Leslie (Bef 01SEP27 to ) 3-8, 14-15
Kimber, Donald (Unknown to 12 MAY45 to Troop) 163
Kimber, Terry (Bef AUG45 to ) 165-167
Lawton, John (JAN29 to 27MAR30 to St. Chad's Woodseats Pack) 15, 21, 25
Lennox, Hamish (27MAR40 to 29AUG42 To Troop) 127, 129, 138, 140, 145
Lennox, Miles (DEC41 to 09JUN45 to Troop) 139, 145, 153, 156, 164
Lilley, David (JAN42 to ) 140-141
Lucas, J. (Bef 24MAY41 to 29AUG42 To Troop) 133, 135, 145
Lyden, P. (15JUL41 to ) 135
Marcroft, Phillip (08JAN34 to 06MAR34 to Totley Rise Methodist Pack) 69, 71
Marshall, Eric (07NOV27 to ) 5
Mather, Cyril (Bef 01SEP27 to 20JUL31 to Troop) 3, 15-16, 21-22, 25, 32, 37, 39, 46
Mayos, Fred (01JUN31 to 01FEB25 to Troop) 38, 46, 55, 57, 59, 63-64, 69-70, 73, 79
Mayos, Jack (04NOV29 to 13FEB33 to Troop) 22, 26, 37, 40-41, 46, 48, 55, 57-58
McClory, Fergus (03MAR45 to ) 160, 166-167
McClory, Shawn (03MAR45 to ) 160, 166
McClory, Terrence (03MAR45 to ) 160
Mills, Peter (27MAR40 to 29AUG42 To Troop) 127, 133, 145
Montieth, James (15MAY33 to ) 59, 69
Moorhouse, Eric (02FEB31 to 17DEC34 to Troop) 37, 46, 54-55, 59, 63, 73, 78
Moseley, Peter (18AUG45 to ) 165
Mott, John (05OCT36 to ) 94-96, 122, 128-129
Mott, Peter (03MAR40 to ) 126, 128-129, 132
Mottram, Brian (08JUN36 to ) 87, 89, 100, 102, 105, 107, 109, 118
Mottram, Kenneth (08JUN36 to ) 87, 89, 102, 105, 109
Needham, Roger (Bef 04DEC43) 152, 164, 166-167, 169, 172
Nunn, Douglas (19MAR28 - ) 6, 9
Parkin, Michael (18AUG45 to ) 165
Pell, Teddie (bef MAR39 to 06APR40 to Troop) 122, 127
Porter, Robin (JAN42 to ) 140-141, 152, 154-156, 163
Pratt, Ronald (10SEP28 to ) 14-15
Pratt, William (10SEP28 to ) 14-16
Rainey, Donald (08JAN34 to ) 69
Renshaw, Leonard (08JAN34 to 02JUL34 to Totley All Saints Pack) 69, 74-75
Righton, John (JAN42 to 12MAY45 to Troop) 140-141, 146, 152, 163
Ripley, John (27MAR40 to ) 127-128, 132, 135, 141, 146
Roberts, Barrie (JAN43 to 13MAY44 to Troop) 145, 147, 152, 155
Roberts, Ralph (19NOV28 to 06OCT30 Crossed off register) 15, 22, 30
Robinson, Jimmy (05APR37 to 20APR40 to Troop) 100, 112, 127
Robinson, Norman (27MAR40 to 29AUG42 To Troop) 127-128, 132, 135, 145
Rodgers, Bill (Bef 14AUG29 to ) 21
Rose, Bobby (Bef 12MAR45 to ) 161
Sadler, Geoffrey (14OCT29 to 02NOV31 to another Pack) 22, 40-41, 46
Shore, Jim (03APR33 to ) 58
Simpkin, Peter (19FEB34 to 07JUL34 to Totley Rise Methodist Pack) 70, 74-75, 102
Simpson, Brian (Bef 12 MAR 45 to ) 161
Smith, George (14OCT29 to ) 22, 26
Smith, Malcolm (14OCT29 to ) 22, 26
Speight, Bob (01JUN31 to ) 38, 40-41, 46
Steer, Geoffrey (Bef 01SEP27 to 14JAN29 To Troop)3, 5-8, 14-15
Stevenson, Derek (Bef 29JUL37 to ) 107, 109, 112
Stow, Kenyon (Bef 01SEP27 to 01JUN31 to Troop) 3, 6, 14, 26, 37-38
Stow, Walter (Bef 26OCT31 to 14MAY34 to Troop) 46, 54, 57, 63, 73
Street, G. (19NOV28 to ) 15
Stubbs, Billy (28JUL30 to ) 26, 46
Taylor, Alec (16DEC29 to ) 22, 25
Taylor, Lawrie (Bef 14AUG29 to ) 21
Trickett, John (24MAY37 to ) 101, 105, 112, 122
Walker, Gordon (Bef 24MAY41 to 19FEB44 to Troop) 133, 135, 145, 148, 152-153
Walton, Dennis (14MAY34 to SEP37) 73, 86, 88-90, 95, 101-102, 107
Walton, Roy (06MAR33 to 03JUN35 to Troop) 58, 68-71, 74, 79-80
Ward, Cyril (16DEC29 to ) 22, 25
Warrington, Kenneth (Bef 17AUG31 to 01APR35 to Troop) 40-41, 46, 55, 57, 59, 63, 65, 69-70, 79-80
Waters, G. (18MAR44 to ) 154
Webster, Ronald (04NOV29 to 26OCT31 to Troop) 22, 26, 37, 39-41, 46
White, Norman (11MAR35 to SEP37) 79, 86, 88-90, 92, 95, 102, 107
Whittaker, Peter (Bef 01SEP27 to ) 3
Wilkin, Derek (02DEC35 to ) 85-90, 92, 95, 98-99
Winn, George (Bef 10MAR37 to ) 100, 102, 107
Woodman, Derrick (19MAR28 to ) 9
Wragg, Peter (22MAR41 to ) 132-133

In Remembrance

Pilot Officer Stephen Atkin and Sergeant Fred Johnson are amongst the 12 men and women who lost their lives in World War II and who are commemorated on Totley War Memorial. Bernard Bestwick, who was born in Totley, was also killed during WW2.

Jungle Book and other names used in the Log

Jungle Book and other names used in the Log

The history of Scouting goes back to the turn of the 20th century when Robert Baden-Powell, a British Army officer stationed in India, wrote a handbook called Aids to Scouting to teach his men about reconnaissance and scouting. Later when he returned from the Boer War a hero for protecting the town of Mafeking for 217 days, Baden-Powell discovered that his handbook had attracted the interest of boys and in 1908 he published his book Scouting for Boys and the Scouting Movement grew more or less spontaneously from there.

In America around the same time, Ernest Thompson Seaton and others were organising groups of boys to learn woodcraft skills and the two movements became fused when an American businessman and publisher, William D. Boyce, learned of Baden-Powell's ideas on a visit to England in 1910 and founded the Boy Scouts of America on his return home.

Local influences have thus always been a part of Scouting. In America, Scouting uses images that are drawn mainly from the wilderness survival skills of frontiersman and of native Americans whereas, in Britain, Scouting uses images borrowed mainly from the Indian sub-continent. Baden-Powell's own experiences in India led him to ask his friend Rudyard Kipling for the use of his Jungle Book stories as a motif for his junior branch of the Scouting movement which he set up in 1914 and called Wolf Cubbing.

The log contains many references to Kipling's stories including the Council Rock for discussions and planning, and the Grand Howl to express a sense of belonging and team spirit. From native American culture come the words Pow-Wow, a meeting for discussion and decision-making often involving ceremony and celebration, and Totem Pole, a monumental sculpture on which are placed symbols of identity, recognition and achievement. Below are names used in the log that also reflect these two cultural influences.

Cubmaster and Assistants
Akela (the wolf)
Bagheera (the black panther)
Baloo (the bear)
Chil (the kite)
Kaa (the python)
Kim (the friend)
Mysa (the wild buffalo)
Nushka (the guide)
Shaw-Shaw (the swallow)
Shere Khan (the tiger)

Wolf Cubs
Mowgli (the man cub), Special one
Black Plume, Sixer
Brown Tip, Sixer
Green feather, Sixer
Red Fang, Sixer
Tawny Fur, Sixer