1st Adderbury Scout Troop, Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK

1996 was the year the Troop celebrated six Chief Scout Award passes, and as the lads reached the Scout leaving age they wrote a special message to the Scouts they were leaving behind...

SUMMER CAMP 1996
Nantmor, Snowdonia, Wales

Throughout 1996 the PLs were Chris Willsher (Kestrels), Liam Merrick (Tigers), Scott Tallett (Otters), Daniel Cooper (Swifts) and Sean Smith (Merlins). Had there been a sixth patrol this would have been led by Andy Wasley, who joined the PLs on all their activities during the year.

OS Mountain Biking, May

Older Scouts Outdoor Karting took place in the snow in February

Wounds at Bases Fortnight in November

Mothering Sunday Breakfast, March. Joe Blakeman, Liam Merrick and Oliver Davies are pictured in another classic Andy Cox picture for the Banbury Guardian.

Younger Scouts Overnighter, April

ALSO IN 1996

The music:
Pulp - Disco 2000
Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
Garbage - Stupid Girl
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
Dodgy - Good Enough

Films:
Train Spotting
Independence Day
The Nutty Professor

TV:
TFI Friday
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Never Mind The Buzzcocks

See more from 1996 on the BBC website:

1996

	The Social Evening 1996 was a big event - this is just the introduction!
	Scott Tallett and Sean Smith re-create a classic Laurel and Hardy sketch in 1996
	With East 17 all the rage the PLs of 1996 became "East Adderbury"
	Funday was a big event the Scout Group ran for the whole village.
	Summer Camp 1996 in Snowdonia
	Another great narrowboating holiday for the year's PLs
	A group of Scouts made a video about what they enjoyed Scouts
	The Chief Scouts' Award presentations in 1996
	A Troop night out - indoor karting