O/T Brighton Scouts Gang Shows 1970s

[Swimboy64]

I suspect I know what you're implying but having spent nearly 25 years with the 2nd Brighton there was never any hint of that.

I had 12 years and a very different experience to you I expect our paths may have crossed if you were involved for 25 years
Where you on the massed band tour in 1977
Where you in the Band?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I had 12 years and a very different experience to you I expect our paths may have crossed if you were involved for 25 years
Where you on the massed band tour in 1977
Where you in the Band?

I wasn't in the Marching Ambassadors/Southern Knights main band but I was in the junior one which was run by David Cowstick (who was a complete idiot), so I can't comment on what happened on the 1977 tour. But having been a cub, scout, scout leader and treasurer at the 2nd there was never any hint of impropriety raised. My mum ran one of the cub packs there for decades while Gordon was running the scouts and she never mentioned anything at all.

 

[Swimboy64]

I wasn't in the Marching Ambassadors/Southern Knights main band but I was in the junior one which was run by David Cowstick (who was a complete idiot), so I can't comment on what happened on the 1977 tour. But having been a cub, scout, scout leader and treasurer at the 2nd there was never any hint of impropriety raised. My mum ran one of the cub packs there for decades while Gordon was running the scouts and she never mentioned anything at all.

So I was present at band training camps at various locations one of which was Gilwell park in Epping Forest and I’m afraid I can give a very different account.Re the 1977 tour
Tony McSweeney was invited,I really don’t know why, a google search will reveal everything. He was formally the chaplain of Norwich city which will make the search easier
Sorry but over the years there was an awful lot of impropriety. But best let it go.
Trust me he is not a good egg