Cotton was still king and textiles were the mainstay of Bolton's manufacturing industry when this picture was taken at Sunnyside Mills, Daubhill.

A BBC film unit was there among the wicker baskets and reels of cotton in June, 1956, to record a programme on the industry. Photography was new Cub badge ON Monday, September 3, I printed a 1971 picture of Scouts learning about photography, in a course run by Mr Stanley Covell, assistant Scout leader of the 30th (Halliwell Road Free Church) troop.

I have now heard from Mr Covell, who tells me that he was introduced to the course in 1966, when Mr Tom Jenkins wanted photographs of the 32nd Blackburn Road Congregational Church Cub Scouts to exchange with Cubs in Japan.

"Later in the same year the Scouts donned a new uniform in a Scouting shake-up, and with it came new Cub badges; one was the photography badge. I was asked to be an examiner for the badge. No-one came along at first, no-one was teaching the badge; so I was asked if I would teach. I took up the task, which locked me in the Scouts for 26 happy years.

"When the photograph which appeared in the Evening News was taken, 101 badges were issued, 100 Cubs and one Brownie, Tom's daughter.

"Over this long period of training boys, I worked at Warburton's Bakery, days and nights, and would rush from the Scouts to be on the night shift.

"I learned photography at Castle Hill County Secondary School when I was 11 years old, winning the school prize for that subject, and was presented with the prize by Nat Lofthouse, an old Castle Hill boy himself. Once bitten by the photography bug, nothing stops you in your interest." Jamboree memories in a diary WHILE on the subject of Scouts, you may recall the article last week about local Scouts who went to the World Jamboree in Austria just 50 years ago, details of which were given to me by Mr Norman Parker.

I have received a letter from Mr B.W, Tyas Cooper, of Breckland Drive, Heaton, who tells me that he was privileged as a 14-years-old schoolboy, to attend the World Scout Jamboree held in 1937 near Haarlem in Holland. "I was a member of the 15th Rugby Troop of the North Warwickshire contingent, having started in 1936 as a pupil at Rugby School," he writes.

"I have various mementoes of the trip, including a commemoration cap and a large poster of the opening ceremony presided over by Queen Wilhelmina. I also have the official Jamboree Diary and Logbook provided for each Scout, and kept a diary there.

"When I returned home I typed all the entries in the diary, illustrated by 28 photographs taken by me while there - three of them with Baden Powell.

"At the front of the diary, there is the following verse - author unknown - which strikes me as very appropriate for anyone who aspires to keep a diary:-

Oh! let me write that I may read,

When time has passed, the story I have told;

That I may live again the happy scene

And keep my youth when I am old.