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...was your GGM Scottish, Pat?  The design on the christening robe looks like thistles...

Thank you Pat,

A very interesting talk.

I can remember delivering groceries to the JACKSON-BARSTOW family at The Lodge back in the 1950s.

I've found her!  The family is entered under the name HELEY and they were at 3 Mount Beacon Row.  It's not an incorrect transcription as the original entry does have HELEY as the surname. I used the census address search on Findmypast. Just shows how many variants a surname can have.

This photo with several others is included in the Log Book.  All photos are named so if you have an interest in any of the names listed in the Log Book I can see if there is a photo for you.  This camp was at Whitson 1941 at Mendip Lodge.

Thank you for adding this information.  I will take a look at those Scouting Photographs. 

This photo of Mr PARTRIDGE in his Canoe on the River Axe was included in the Scout Log Book for July 1941.  He was allowing members of St Paul's Troop to take turns in his canoe.

Thank you also for your article in Buckets and Spades.  My husband attended St John's at that time.  He tells me that he usually sat in the Balcony but unlike you he found the sermons of Rev BATTERSBY to be inspirational and thought provoking being about real situations.

N.G. Partridge, mentioned in Local Scouts, was Noel Partridge, who was a friend of my family, especially my grandfather, William Holder.  Mr. Partridge, as and when I knew him, was a gentle soul, a bachelor who lived in Maida Vale, London.  I had a bedsit in his house on Randolph Avenue for my first year as a student in 1960.  When I was twelve, he took Roger Bewley Bull and myself on a two-week canoe trip down the Thames from Oxford To Reading.(3 in a canoe!!)

I don't know anything else about Mr. Partridge, except that he must have known William Holder though scouting in the 1920s and 30s.  I have deposited a number of group scouting photographs, amongst other group photos, on a cd at the Weston Library and Somerset Heritage Center.  Can't tell you the call number, I'm afraid, but probably under my name.  Philip Clark