Association Collection (#26)

Medal, Derby Schools Athletic Association
Medal of the Derby Schools Athletic Association, awarded to K. W. Watson for first prize in the Bromham Shield. Featuring the Derby emblem of a deer in a park at the centre. Date: 1923

Swimming medal, Life Saving Championship
Medal of the Derby & District Swimming & Life Saving Association, awarded to JHW (J. H. Watson) for coming 3rd in the Individual Life Saving Championship. Date: 1912

Parnassos Oros
Mount Parnassus, near Delphi, is where Apollo and the Muses hang out : the other peak is sacred to Bacchus, hence the association of poets with wine and ale. Date: 1850

Looking at the book of the lost and at news of the Titanic
In the anxious hours which followed the greatest of Maritime disasters: At Lloyd s, the famous association of Marine Underwriters. After the sinking of the Titanic. Date: 27th April 1912

Battle Re-Enactment
Members of the Southern Skirmish Association charge across the turnip fields of Kent, firing antique muskets and wearing home-made uniforms. Date: 1960s

George VI Youth Hostel
This fine house, in Queens Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, is the King George VI Memorial Hostel, belonging to the Scottish Youth Hostels Association (opened 1957). Date: late 1950s

Cooling Church
The Church of St. James, Cooling, Kent, England, famous for its association with Charles Dickens as the place where Pip first met Magwich in Great Expectations. Date: late 14th century

Swimming medal, 100 Yards Breast Stroke
Medal of the Derby & District Swimming & Life Saving Association, awarded to K. W. Watson for coming 2nd in the 100 Yards Breast Stroke. Date: 1933

The FA challenge cup final, 1883
The Football Association challenge cup-final tie: Old Etonians(Captained by the Hon. A.F Kinnaird)versus Blackburn Olympics(captained by S.A Warburton)

Medal, Celanese Sports Club, Spondon, Derbyshire
Medal of the Celanese Sports Club, an occupational club run by the employees of the British Celanese chemical company at Spondon, Derbyshire. 20th century

Swimming medal, Water Polo Championship
Medal of the Midland Counties Amateur Swimming Association, awarded to the runners up in the Water Polo Championship. Featuring an outdoor swimming scene with a lifebelt design below. Date: 1909

Prince Philip attends garden party in Woodford Green
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921), attending a garden party at the White House, Woodford Green in aid of the Essex Playing Fields

Seychelles Scouts Saluting the Union Jack
Seychelles Scouts saluting the Union Jack every morning at 8am, August Camp. 1931

Aden Patrol Training Course
Patrol Training Course held in Sheikh Othman, Aden in 1961. Attended by Arab, Indian, Somali, Jewish & British Scouters. 1961

Two Scouts from Aden at the 1957 World Scout Jamboree, held in Sutton Park, Birmingham, UK. 1957

American Scout - 1951 Jamboree
American Scout at a Jamboree, 1951 1951

Scouts helping elderly man
American Scouts assisting an elderly person from his wheelchair onto a bus. circa 1930s

Baden-Powell in Aden
The Chief Scout (Lord Baden-Powell) & the President of the Local Association watching the displays in Aden. 1930s

Scout ceremony with President Johnson
Boy Scout Ferris Taylor presents President Johnson with a walnut plaque bearing the Scout emblem and a gavel. The traditional " Report to the Nation" of the Boy Scouts of America was

National Air Scouts 21st Anniversary Celebrations
Surrey Air Scout Camp at National Air Scouts 21st Anniversary Celebrations at Rushmoor. 1962

Seychelles Scouts, January Camp. 1931

Two young Polish Scouts, circa 30s thirties 1930s circa 1930s

Rich Wotherspoon with other blind boy scouts
Boys of the 2nd Berkley Boy Scout Troop, California, December 8 cluster round to feel the Eagle Scout badge of Rich Wotherspoon, 20. All the boys in the picture are blind

American Scout - 1947 Jamboree
American Scout at the 1947 Jamboree 1947

Scout in cockpit of Miles Magister
Scout wearing an aviator hat sitting in the cockpit of a Denham Flying Club Miles Magister. circa 1950s

South Arabian Cubs and Scouts
A group of South Arabian Cubs look round at the camera at a Scouting social event in Aden, Yemen. circa 1966

American Explorer program
Young men and women sit listening as one of them plays the guitar. In the newly revised Explorer program, a Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America

Polish Scouts at the 1957 World Jamboree 1957

Scouts at 1948 London Olympics
Scouts lining the opening ceremony of the 1948 London Olympics at Wembley Stadium. 1948

President Nixon with Boy Scouts
Richard Nixon sampling camp food with American Scouts. circa 1950s

American Scouts listening to the radio
Five American Boy Scouts sit together listening to the radio, while one reads a magazine. An elderly lady sits in the corner of the room. 1942

Irish Beaver Scout footpainting
An Irish scout showing a younger Beaver Scout how to do foot painting. 1970s

Air Scouts climbing on plane with Lord Olivier
Air Scouts climbing on a Fairey Albacore plane with Lieutenant/Sir Laurence Olivier. 1940s

Scouts with their Model T Ford
Two boy scouts of Troop 176 of Leavenworth, Kansas loading their Model T Ford with scrap metal. The car hauled much salvage material and enabled the Troop to buy War Bonds. circa 1940s

Leif Akerlof and beaver scouts. circa 1980s

Chief Scout Lord Robert Baden Powell wearing his Scout uniform and decorations Date: circa 1929

Seychelles Boy Scouts. September 1932

Irish Scouts in a motorboat in Dun Laoghaire harbour. 1970s

Polish Rover Scout Instructors / Leaders
Polish Rover Scout Instructors/Leaders. circa 1930s

Polish boy scout
Jolly Polish boy scout. circa 1930s

Scouts at Heathrow Airport
Mr Trevor Scott-Chard and London Air Scouts at London Heathrow Airport with British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing Stratocruiser Canopus behind them. 1950

Polish Scouts carrying turf. circa 1930s

Scouts at Olympic opening ceremony
Scouts holding nationality signs during the opening ceremony of the 1948 London Olympics at Wembley Stadium. 1948

Seychelles Scouts on Bicycles

Polish Scouts on parade. circa 1930s

International Scout Troop in Warsaw, all members are sons of foreign Embassies staff. circa 1960s

Seychelles Scouts Court of Honour
Sitting of the Court of Honour to deal with an offence committed by a Scout. September 1932

Irish Scouts at a wayside cross
Irish Scouts, on a hike with rucksacks, stopped at a wayside cross in Glencree, County Wicklow, Ireland. 1960s

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