Cubs & Scouts

A Cub scout troop was started in c1958 by John Munday of Byways, Goodacres Lane, Lacey Green (click John & Jill Munday)

Hallmark 1980 by Stuart Stansfield click 1980 Cubs & Scouts by Stuart Stansfield for the full article

The Cubs' Hut at Kingswood Farm

I became involved with Scouting in Lacey Green in 1980. There was a thriving cub group in the village, under the leadership of John Munday, who was assisted by Brian Biggs and Arthur Watters. click The Cubs for details about the cubs. click Brian & Betty Biggs or Arthur & Valerie Watters for more about Brian and Arthur.

At age 11 the boys needed to move onto Scouts and there was no group for them, so with sons aged 11 yrs and 9 yrs respectively I felt I ought to perhaps do something about it and Arthur Watters agreed to share the responsibility with me.

We began the troop with about a dozen boys, mostly from the cubs, but with a few more from outside the village. Initially we met in the school hall, but we really needed a place of our own and John West kindly offered a site on his land at Kingswood Farm. We had been offered a redundant building from a firm in Marlow, which we could have at no cost, if we were prepared to break it down and reassemble it in situ at Kingswood. Over a few months this duly happened and it remained the headquarters for a couple of years until Lacey Green and Speen Scouts amalgamated. We then met in the established Scout hut at Speen, which had its own surrounding woodland, which lent itself to all Scouting activities. We were able to do some adventurous pioneering and enjoyed cooking over wood fires etc.