What a lovely picture of the scouts. I can only recognise Peter Coomber, William Hagar, David Tarrant and Tom Paul. I do recognise some of the other names but unfortunately I can't put faces to them.

A very interesting article. I was a senior scout in a group named 49th Brighton from 1956 to 1958, when I helped in the cub pack, then an assistant leader for cubs from 1960 the group met in Woodingdean Methodist church at the Ridgeway until 1963, when it merged with the 23rd Brighton, who used to meet near the Downs Hotel. This formed the 19th Brighton and met at the school in Downs Valley Road. Is the 19th Brighton still going strong? Len Harward was the Scout leader of the 49th and his wife, Felicity, the Cub leader, The 19th leaders were: Cubs Mike Hinds and his wife, Scout leader David Billham and Group Scout leader John Brooks. So the 49th at St Joseph's must have opened after 1963.

Three of the cubs are: Richard Tarrant next to his brother, in front of him Michael Lyons and on the end Stephen Turner.

Further to the comment by John Todd, I attended a service to bury the ashes of John Brooks yesterday, joined by David Bilham and my brother, Michael Foster who was also a scout leader at the 19th. A few of my own memories about John can be found at FosterRuns dot com.