History

In March 2016, 1st Hazel Grove Scout Group will celebrate its 90th birthday.  That is the 1st Hazel Grove (Methodist Sponsored) Scout Group that was registered with the Boy Scouts’ Association on 22nd March 1926 and is numbered 4871.  This is the beginning of a history of the Group written by Chief – Michael Vernon, the son of the Group’s founder, Harold Vernon.

• A Scout Group is Born

• The Group Thrives, but there’s another War
• After the War was over
• The 60’s and changes are afoot
• The 1970s and Golden Jubilee Celebrations
• The end of the 1970s
• The 1980s and the arrival of Beaver Scouts