** English boy scout activities -- camping








English Boy Scout Uniforms: Activities--Camping


Figure 1.--English Scouts in this photograph wear a green coloured T-shirt with their Group�s details printed on it. T-shirts are normal wear at camps and adventure activities. Traditionally, British Scouts wear shorts at camp, but in some activities tough trousers are required such as jeans.

Some of the activities most associated with English and other Scouts around the world, are of course camping and a variety of other activities associated with camping such as hiking, campaing, cooking, and fireside singing and story telling. Camping was at the heart iof early Scouting. Baden Powell in fact tested the entire Scouting program at his famous Brown Sea Island camp. The importance of camping was the idea of getting city children out into the countryside for fresh air and exercize. The British Scouts were quite strict about the correct unifoem in camping. This appears to be the case through the 1960s until the uniform changed to long pants. After this the dress at camps becomes much more informal. Even though there were no Scout shorts, Scouts at camp often wore shorts for many activities, but they wore many kinds of shorts. This seemed to have brought about a tendency ti wear different shirts as well. We also seen Scouts beginning to wear camp "T" shirts at this time.







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