Author: Trevor
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The 14th Richmond Scout Boating Centre had four boats in this year’s GRR, Jubilant, Gordon Hall, Fan Maker and Naiad. All boats completed the race successfully and all crews (seemed 🙂 to enjoy themselves, the weather was perfect with overcast sun, not too hot, and river conditions pretty good. Jubilant with a new invigorated Crew…
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Liz and her team from the Richmond GoodGym Again volunteered to paint our boatarch doors with Teak Oil. This took two sessions, one on Saturday 29th July to “flat off” the doors with sanding blocks and put a first coat, then a return trip on the following Monday. We are very grateful for the teams…
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The “refreshed” Jubilant crew have been out training on the river, a recent trip was captured by Ruth Wadey (photographer – known for regular BBC Weather “Weather Watcher” pictures http://www.wadey.com/ ) , she has kindly let us use these images .
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A quiet reflection time on the members of hte 14th Richmond Sea Scouts who lost their lives in the war, Especially for me, for my Uncle Gordon Hall who was a Scout Leader in the Group. Trevor Hall Centre Manager
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A proposal has been made to make a permanent memorial to Bamber on the river by refurbishing the set of river steps near his home , and naming them Bamber’s Steps in honour of all his promotion and support for users of the Thames. please donate if you can on https://gofund.me/749859b1
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We were all deeply saddened but the sudden passing of our friend David Isaac.David was the Group Scout Leader of Kew Scouts, and a huge supporter and user of the activities in our boating centre . He would never hesitate to help with our fund raising or activity events. We have lost a great friend…
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After quite a bit of repair work and cleaning Robin Arundel our work boat is Up and running again. She has a new starter motor, and we are gradually cleaning/sanding and resealing the seat slats. On Saturday 17th April , we took her up through Teddington lock and towed back a couple of Skerrys for…
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I am sad to have to report that my father Geoffrey Hall died peacefully in his sleep on Boxing day, he was ninety years old. He had been suffering from a bad infection, and was not really recovering. Geoffrey was a Scout in the 14th Richmond Sea Scouts during the war years, his three other…
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The guests at the 89th Christmas breakfast had to stay at home and make their own breakfast this year, here are some of the glorious results.
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As mentioned in my last post, I intended to keep the tradition going albeit with a smaller guest list…. in this case only my household ….So we packed everything up and got down to the HQ early(ish) today, the Sunday before Christmas… And followed all the HQ Covid rules 🙂 Our Special guest this year…
