Junior Clubs of Yore

[lloydslights]

I have been going through some of my old books and came across my Junior RED CROSS Circle membership card.  Dated May, 1964.  Used as a bookmark.

Pledge:  

As a member of Junior Red Cross I promise to serve;

to work loyally for the promotion of Health and the

Relief of Suffering and Distress wherever I may find it;

to hold in friendship Boys and Girls of all Nations.

I can recall being a member of a stamp collecting club too.   Rocket Stamp????  They'd send out monthly, a pack of stamps 1/-?

Anybody else have similar memories.

DEB

[serendipityricho]

Deb--good idea for a thread---im holding back and see who else posts .lol..................Richo.

[imastawka]

We were too poor to be members of anything.

We were so poor we didn't have forefathers.

We only had one

No, really, I never had the club mentality.

Was pretty much a loser loner

[creative*crisis]

I was member of the Girls Brigade and the Brownies.

I joined everything I could so that i could go away on camps.

[twyngwyn]

I was in the I - Spy Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Spy_(Michelin)

[serendipityricho]

Was in the Scouts-travelled from WA to Sydney on steam trains.

Attended a Jamboree-changed trains about 6 times because of the different 

track widths.

Was a great experience for a 13 year old back in 1961..............................Richo.

[lloydslights]

That was a long trip for a 13 year old, Richo.  With a group of mates and a leader? would have been okay.

I recall knitting squares for the Cross.  And ripping sheets and winding the strips into bandages whilst wearing the white veil with a red cross.  We'd made that in sewing.  The Club was Friday lunchtime,  fortnightly at school.

I went to a Red Cross Camp for the school holidays to Yarramundi when I was 12.  I knew no-one, I got homesick.  And the property was the same as my own. ......bush, birds, snakes, etc. only there were about 50 more girls than home.

Funnily enough when I did my secretarial course 5 years later, there were 2 other girls from my "hut" of 8,  in that class of 25 scholarship winners.

DEB

[serendipityricho]

Deb-was about 200  on the train-limited supervision by todays standards.

Remember a few of us finding our own way to luna park.lol.

Bit like CC an earlier poster-joined up for the camping.

This one was a 2 week interstate adventure...............................Richo.