The Barnsley 9th and 20th Rover Crews

My Grandfather, Sidney Charles Richardson was a keen scouting person and was the skipper of these two crews from 1929 until around 1941 when he left after being conscripted.

Many years ago, he gave me the logs for these two crews for the period that he was in charge. They have remained in storage until now. I have scanned them and present them here for folks to examine. The Adobe Acrobat files require version five and above.

I think that they are worth a look at because they give an insight into scouting in the 30's and early 40's. They give a bit of a view into the second world war too. One of the pages contains a certificate earned by my Grandfather and signed by none other than Baden Powell himself

One of the interesting things about these logs are the illustrations by Harry Mathews that fill the pages. They are first class and well worth looking at.

There are 4 ways of viewing these logs

  1. Get them as huge Adobe Acrobat files on CD from me
  2. Download them here as smaller Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files
  3. Page of thumbs. Follow the link below to a page of thumbnails. Click on the thumbnail to see the large readable image
  4. Page at a time. Browse through the logs moving up and down a page at a time. Jump to a chosen page
9th Barnsley Rover Crew
1 March 1929 until June 1937		 PDF 40 Meg Page of thumbs Page at a time
20th Barnsley (central) rover crew
Aug 5th 1938 to February 1941		 PDF 12 Meg Page of thumbs Page at a time

Various programmes of activities and a clip from the Barnsley Evening Chronicle mentioning the log. These are pasted in to the back of the first log

If you know anything at all about the Barnsley Rovers or if you recognise or know anyone that had anything to do with them, please email me.

The downloads here are greatly reduced in quality. I do have much larger and better quality versions available for anyone interested. I have created versions of quite good quality that fit on to one CD

This page is still in the process of being built, so please bear with me while I get it up to scratch. There is a poignant reminder of these times in the second log where my grandad pasted a letter he received from a Rover sent from the HMS Picotee. A corvette that was torpedoed with no survivors


These log scans are for personal use only. They are not to be passed on for profit.
The downloadable scans of log books and other items here are © C.J.Richardson 25/03/2004