Guiding in the Forties
THIS year marks the centenary of the Guiding movement with celebrations being held up and down the country.
Many of the local celebrations have already featured in the Spenborough Guardian, but reader Eva Shaw (nee Sheard) thought we might also be interested in some pictures from her family archives which show Guides in the 1940s.
Eva and her friends were members of the 4th Cleckheaton Girl Guides which, at the time, met at the former Westgate Congregational Church, Westgate.
The group later disbanded and the name now belongs to the group which meets at the Catholic church hall.
Our first picture shows the girls with a shield which they won in 1945. They were the first group to win the shield and Eva thinks it may have been for competing in a series of events at the Clayborn playing fields in Liversedge.
The girls on that photograph are: back row from the left, Jean Clegg, Jean Holmes, Sylvia Jackson, Marion Leeding, Doreen Beaumont, Sylvia Jackson, Agnes Briggs and Margaret Denney. In the middle are Edna Smith, Mary Higham, Jean Lambert, Eva Sheard, Shirley Law, Doris Stead and Brenda Harrap. At the front are Kathleen Bamford, Margaret Cunningham, Kathleen Cox, Sheila Robinson, Sheila Greenwood, Rita Lambert and Sheila Proctor.
Mrs Shaw recalls that Brenda Harrop's father was the local bobby.
The second photograph shows the girls with the Rev Thomas and was taken in 1043 at the chapel where they met.
Pictured are: back row from the left Doris Stead, Marion Leeding, Lilian Hepworth, Vera Lambert, the Rev Thomas, Mary Higham and Edna Smith. On the front row are Marjorie Norton, Jean Lambert, Marlene Hodgson, Shirley Law, Doreen Beaumont, Norma Fearnley and Eva Sheard.
Shirley Law's father was the postmaster and newsagent in Westgate and Doreen Beaumont's father had the chemist shop at the corner of Quarry Road, Westgate.
The final picture shows the 4th Guides along with Guides from Central Chapel and was taken in the old Market Place, where the Spenborough Guardian is today.
Among those there were Mavis Illingworth, Jean Rushworth, Margaret Mann, Marcia Sobey and Gladys Kell.
Mrs Sheard is not sure what the occasion was, but it could possibly have been St George's Day.
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