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Gallery: Archive photographs show north-east’s cubs and scout groups through the decades

by Donna Ewen
28/10/2018, 5:00 pm
1986: Gordon area Cubs met at Templar’s Park, Maryculter, to mark the 70th birthday of the Cub Scout movement
1986: Gordon area Cubs met at Templar’s Park, Maryculter, to mark the 70th birthday of the Cub Scout movement

These photographs, found in our archives, show cubs and scouts groups in the north-east over the past few decades.

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1987: Jamie Moir, 9, of the 9th Aberdeen Scout Group, learns his lines before auditioning for the Gang Show
1989: Aberdeen Gang Show members Steven Jenkins, 11, of the 63rd Cove Bay Scouts, and Alan Rennie, 14, of the 35th Mastrick Scouts
1987: Cub Scouts Andrew Riddell and Andrew Cameron visited Andy Leiper’s bakery
1986: Gordon area Cubs met at Templar’s Park, Maryculter, to mark the 70th birthday of the Cub Scout movement
1986: David Nicolson, Kevin Robertson, Stuart Wilkens, and Scott and Gavin Downie
1988: Robert Johnson, Ray Addison, Darryl Munro, Kreke Latter and Mike Whymont at a Scout camp cooking contest at Templars Park
1985: Nick Chauvin, 12, of the 248 Scout Troop, based at the American School at Cults, planted a Sitka spruce as his civic project to earn a Star Scout badge
1989: Members of the 1st Portlethen Venture Scouts enjoy the 21st birthday of the Venture Scout movement with a party in the Portlethen Scout Hall
1994: Greg Nairn, 1st Kintore Scout Group with L/Cpl Kevin Douglas on a visit to the Gordon Highlanders Regimental HQ in Aberdeen
1988: 1st Pitcaple Cub Scout Graham Skinner is pictured threatening Richard Biggs with a cutlass as the “pirates” become involved in a fun-filled fray
1987: 65th Milltimber Cubs football captain Michael Milne receives the Dee District Cubs Wimpy League Cup after beating 4th Aberdeen 4-2 in a play-off at Balgownie
1987: Under the watchful eye of master baker Andy Leiper, the boys of the 62nd put their rowies into the oven on a visit to the bakery
1987: Farm manager John Robertson with eight-year-old Ashley Painter and the American School Cub Scout pack during a visit to Easter Anguston Farm
1986: The 55th (Kincorth) Aberdeen Scout Group ready to set off for their annual camp at Aberfeldy Aberdeen