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LMGLM:1993.325

Summary: photograph, album of c230 bw photographs of activities of 9th Lymington Sea Scouts, including Lord Baden Powell's visit, RMS Queen Mary, foreign trips, the Royal Lymington Yacht Club, the river, the Sea Scout Hut, Bath Road, the Pier and other scenes in Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, Hampshire, 1920s-30sSummary: The 1st Lymington Sea Scout Troop...

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Summary: photograph, album of c230 bw photographs of activities of 9th Lymington Sea Scouts, including Lord Baden Powell's visit, RMS Queen Mary, foreign trips, the Royal Lymington Yacht Club, the river, the Sea Scout Hut, Bath Road, the Pier and other scenes in Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, Hampshire, 1920s-30s

Summary: The 1st Lymington Sea Scout Troop was formed in 1921 and changed its name in November 1922 to the 9th Lymington Sea Scouts. Cf LMGLM:1993.331. The Lymington Sea Scouts were founded in the 1920s and became one of the most influential groups in the country during the 1930s. This was largely because their founder, Robert Hole, became involved in the movement nationally. The troop were used as models for books and guides written by Robert Hole, which may be the reason for some of the posed pictures. The troop were well provided with canoes and boats including a whaler and the guard ship, Rodney, here being painted by the scouts in full uniform! In 1933 a headquarters opened in Kings Saltern Road. Baden-Powell himself visited the troop on occasion. Many of the photographs feature ‘mature’ scouts perhaps because they were attending training camps which were held in Lymington for Scout leaders from elsewhere in the county or because there were not the same upper age limits to scouting in its early days

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