30th Aug 2022
Welcome to 2nd Renfrew Trinity Scout Group
Maps? Bits of paper? Following a drawing to find out where to go? They’re all very important. Why?
As noted on our last homepage, our Scout Troop looked at a town map of Renfrew for their Local Knowledge badge, but town maps aren’t all we use – we also use Ordnance Survey maps for route finding, hillwalking and camping locations. However that’s not all, as 2nd Renfrew has another type of map.
During our Scout Group’s Centenary celebrations in 2021 we discovered original hand drawn scale maps in our archive, these maps creating quite a bit of excitement, as they’re valuable to us and to Renfrew Town because they’re detailed drawings of parts of the old Blythswood Estate in Renfrew. On close examination of these maps and speaking to some of our former senior Scouts, we discovered that the Scouts used parts of the Estate for honing outdoor skills like navigation, learning map symbols, route planning and assessing the terrain.
The hand drawn maps are in perfect condition and are beautifully illustrated; they’re a testament to the work of our Scout Leader at the time. One of the maps is the picture at the top of this page, but to see it in more detail, please click here.
Some old maps will be consigned to history, but not our hand drawn ones – they’re valuable to us as part of our archive, they help us learn about our former Scouts and the history of Renfrew.
In 2nd Renfrew Scouts we help our young people learn a range of valuable new skills including mapping using tried and tested methods of printed maps, but we also embrace new innovations with mapping – there’s more about that on our next homepage, so please visit us again.
If you’d like your young person to learn new skills, we’ll be delighted to see you, or for further information you can contact me on 2ndrenfrewtrinityscoutgroup@gmail.com.
Rachel Shaw
Group Lead Volunteer
** Please note the information below for “Sections We Run” is incorrect for 2nd Renfrew – this is being addressed by our website provider.
In the meantime, I’m pleased to advise we run Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorer Scouts. Clicking the name of the Section will take you to that Section’s information page.
