The Barnsley 9th and 20th Rover Crews

 

 

My Grandfather, Sidney Charles Richardson was a keen scouting person and was the skipper of these two crews from 1929 until around 1941 when he left after being conscripted.

Many years ago, he gave me the logs for these two crews for the period that he was in charge. They have remained in storage until now. I have scanned them and present them here for folks to examine.

I think that they are worth a look at because they give an insight into scouting in the 30's and early 40's. They give a bit of a view into the second world war too. One of the pages (Book one page 79) contains a certificate earned by my Grandfather and signed by none other than Lord Baden Powell of Gilwell himself.

One of the interesting things about these logs are the illustrations by Harry Mathews that fill the pages. They are first class and well worth looking at. I think he was a cartoonist at the Barnsley Chronicle.

There are 4 ways of viewing these logs:

  1. Get them as the original scans from myself. They come as high quality Adobe Acrobat PDF files, 2gb and 600mb. Also as separate high quality JPEGs all on one DVD. Contact me for details.
  2. Download them here as Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files.The Adobe Acrobat files require version five and above. There are two sets of files downloadable here. Low quality and medium quality versions.
  3. Page of thumbs. Follow the link below to a page of thumbnails. Click on the thumbnail to see the large readable image.
  4. Page at a time. Browse through the logs moving up and down a page at a time. Jump to a chosen page.
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9th Barnsley Rover Crew 1 March 1929 until June 1937 PDF 40mb PDF 325mb Page of thumbs Page at a time
20th Barnsley (central) rover crew Aug 5th 1938 to February 1941 PDF 12mb PDF 87mb Page of thumbs Page at a time
Various programmes of activities A clip from the Barnsley Evening Chronicle mentioning the log. These are pasted in to the back of the first log PDF   Page of thumbs Page at a time
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If you know anything at all about the Barnsley Rovers or if you recognise or know anyone that had anything to do with them, please contact me via the 'Contact 8BS' link on the main page of the 8BS website or the email address shown on the main page of the website found from the 'About Me' link.

There is a poignant reminder of these times in the second log (page 78) where my grandad pasted a letter he received from a Rover (Henry Charles Lee Youel) sent from the HMS Picotee. A corvette that was torpedoed with no survivors.

The photograph of the plaque below is self explanatory really. Click it to download a zip of the original full sized photograph.

 


These log scans are for personal use only. They are not to be passed on for profit.
The downloadable scans of log books and other items here are © C.J.Richardson 25/03/2004