{"id":3242,"date":"2020-04-17T14:58:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/?page_id=3242"},"modified":"2020-04-17T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:59:49","slug":"were-you-an-rhs-scout","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/where-are-they-now\/were-you-an-rhs-scout\/","title":{"rendered":"Were you an RHS Scout?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From Alastair Allanach and Gordon Burt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were you in the RHS Scout Troop? If you&#8217;d like to share some memories, send in a photo or get back in touch with fellow scouts, this is the page to come to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"857\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RHS-Scouts-1961-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RHS-Scouts-1961-1.jpg 857w, https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RHS-Scouts-1961-1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/RHS-Scouts-1961-1-768x529.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><figcaption>Peebles 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RHS      (12th Portobello) Scouts 1961 &#8211; we are indebted to Eric Sprigg for this and the image below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Left to Right &#8211; Burt, Saunders, Allanach, Thomson, McConnachie Jnr, a.n.other, Pendreigh,  Elvin, Anderson, McConachie Snr, Symon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Alastair, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for the photos. The first is I  think an expedition to the flat-topped peak south of Peebles via Black  Dwarf&#8217;s cottage. The second is I think at Bonally.  It  was in the Pentland Hills and we camped in a field in a farm next some  old &#8216;well&#8217;.  I recall a slight fall of snow in the evening and  you&nbsp;telling me you had been reading John Steinbeck&#8217;s &#8220;Of Mice and Men&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In the morning we walked along the road, past a ploughed field with a  flock of lapwings&nbsp;&#8230; and into West Linton to catch&nbsp;the bus home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great memories!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">best wishes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gordon <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"336\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Walter-Gordon-Rob-and-Alan-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Walter-Gordon-Rob-and-Alan-1.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Walter-Gordon-Rob-and-Alan-1-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Walter Thomson, Gordon Burt, Rob Lawrie and Alan Grosset <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A photograph from 1947 of the scout troop with  Miss Hamilton, Mr Ball (rector of the Royal High School, and Mrs McGregor (n\u00e9e Henderson) can be viewed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghcollected.org\/memories\/5736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the Living Memory website (opens in a new tab)\">the Living Memory website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Alastair Allanach and Gordon Burt Were you in the RHS Scout Troop? If you&#8217;d like to share some memories, send in a photo or get back in touch with fellow scouts, this is the page to come to. RHS (12th Portobello) Scouts 1961 &#8211; we are indebted to Eric Sprigg for this and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":273,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-where.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3242\/revisions\/3262"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}