Avenue House Service Team

Members

Names, Bios, Where are they now?
and Gone Home

League tables

All-time, Modern Era, Post-Modern Era, International Era, and Attendees By Event

The AHST

The Avenue House Service Team was established in October 1970 from the dying embers of the Avenue House Venture Scout Unit, which was part of Finchley, Friern Barnet and Golders Green District Scouts (which is now a part of Barnet Borough District) in Greater London North Scout County.

Members met at ‘The Den’ on the Avenue House Estate (now known as Stephens House) in Finchley.

Although the Service Team only remained operational until shortly after the introduction of the Scout Fellowship in 1976 many long term friendships were cemented and the Team is not only remembered fondly but still active in its own unique way.

Over 50 years after the Unit formed, past members together with other ex and existing Scouters from the District still meet once a year.

We hope that this site will expand to include more information about the work and activities undertaken by the Team. In the meantime though we’ve focused on the Hikes and Camps.

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Acknowledgements

Peter Cox collated and produced ‘Forty Years on Foot’ but he is, without wanting to produce a long list, indebted to:

Graham Beevor – without whose help the report and therefore the website would not have been possible. His accurate record of the location for each hike and who took part has proved essential, as has his collection of maps and ability to recall most of the routes taken.
Geoff Wright – who was able to fill in the few gaps Graham had left.
Everyone else who has made a contribution, particularly in the form of photographs and anecdotes, enabling me to produce the individual reports, in particular for those hikes that I did not attend.

The reports covering the hikes (and a camp) between 1971 and 1976 have been adapted from those written by team members and published in ‘Avenue Seen This’, the journal of the AHST.

Reports written after 2008 are specifically attributed to the author.

We also thank the many farmers, householders, family members, b&b owners and random strangers who we have met on the hikes over the years and who have helped us in one way or another.

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