Scouting Centenary

In Southampton, in 1912, the Hampshire scouts held a grand rally with displays of first-aid and a game of Cowboys and Indians.  Footage, shot on an early cine camera, shows that just five years after the formation of the scouts the movement was already booming.

Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell attended the rally and appears in the film with his fiance Olave, a few weeks before they were married.

Half a century later, more filming took place at Lasham airfield.

Roger Finn has been looking at the history of scouting in the south and accompanied three ex-scouts, who remember flying at Lasham, back to the airfield where they reminisce about flying, gyro-gliding and sleeping in an old aeroplane.