You know what awaits you, then? You shall see her if you sign. During the summer, no problem, the summer holiday came, and during that Ken Laws and Alan Bloomfield, who were Committee members, had been for many a year, came along to me and said " I understand that you’ve been helping out at cubs." I said "Yes..". When I finished school I went to work in Haslemere and one evening in summer, when I had nothing to do, for some unknown reason, I wandered down to scouts or cubs, just wondered what was going on, to be greeted with "come along and help". One of the things I can always remember as a cub and a scout was, as was mentioned earlier, the barbecue. But I was a cub under.. I eventually left when I got married, when I was 22. I continued to run the cubs for another six or seven years, when I moved out of the village, coming back to the village for that, every Thursday evening I think it was. And that was the idea, I’d go along and try and run an evening, I knew roughly what was going on, and give it a go with some help from the district team as well.

It was originally used to describe the animal and bird-killing activities (such as shooting, fishing and fox hunting) of the English aristocracy, whereas the precursors of modern team sports played by the lower classes were termed "games". Credence to this comment may be taken from the ever-more-diverse set of activities that are at least claimed by some as sports - from chess to cheerleading, What is a billiards club from sheepdog trials to ballroom dancing. Jump in and tell us what you know about these sports. How you can do "Acting" for that length of time, I don’t know but he did. My father said that to play at Lurgashall they used to walk with their cricket gear - I don’t know how they got the instruments there but they all had banjos or squeeze boxes - if you didn’t have an instrument you had to have a bit of toilet roll and a comb!

Also too both father and son had followed each other in Parish Council, District Council. He was Midhurst District Commissioner or Acting District Commissioner, for about 14/15 years. My husband was Church Warden for fourteen years. I must go back a bit further because the £700 that they raised was not enough of course, they wanted £1000 for the actual field, that was Knight Frank and Rutley, so father-in-law called a meeting. So JG Cole was sent to London to negotiate with Knight Frank and Rutley and so he went and offered them £800 so they said no that wasn’t really fair but they compromised for £900. I remember right at the end of the war it was suggested, on VJ Day when the war ended, it was suggested that we build a big bonfire in the cricket field down here and three of us, including Bob Lambert I think, went to Mr Dudman and said could we borrow the scout Union Jack.

He said that he didn’t think that was a very good idea anyway and so three of us, I remember came up to start building a bonfire. He helped to start the Youth Club, didn’t he? But there was no Youth Club, nothing here at all like that and he and Miss Tudor and Mary Burnett, went to Midhurst and organised the starting of the Youth Club. The aristocracy have their own club affiliations. Our flaired users have detailed knowledge of their historical specialty and a proven record of excellent contributions to /r/AskHistorians. I wouldn’t have thought that but I mean it must be.. I mean nowadays it doesn’t seem to, but it did then. They had a village meeting and then they were rather in a stalemate situation when three of them got together and as somebody walked passed the door where they were meeting, JGC saw him and he called him in and he said I will guarantee up to£1000. I joined the Boy Scouts when I was 11. Mr Dudman, he was the scoutmaster then. I thoroughly enjoyed it as far as cubs and scouts was concerned. On the third week it was announced that cubs was going to close because Betty and Mrs Hunt were finishing.