Description: Title: SCOUTING DAYS AUTUMN 1954.

Two uniformed senior scouts stand, looking at a programme for Fulham District Boy Scouts Athletic Sports in Fielders Meadow, Bishops Park, Fulham on Saturday September 4th, 1954 at 2.30pm. In the park some young athletes in shorts and vests run towards the camera, then flash past one by one as they near and then cross the finishing line, while family and friends look on. A uniformed scout leader presents a certificate to the winner who salutes smartly, turns and walks off. In another race, young athletes run round the field, past some trees. Another young man in smartly matching dark vest and shorts, sprints across the field and then walks towards us. In a close up he holds a winner's certificate. Other races are run. The winner of one, young Tony Knights (his name is in an intertitle) looks very pleased with himself and salutes as a senior scout leader, possibly the District Commissioner, hands him his certificate.

The October Pioneer Course at Downe. In the corner of a field surrounded by trees, three uniformed scouts carrying backpacks walk, smiling, towards the camera. Others follow. Out in the open, some meat is cooking on a spit over a smoky wood fire. A young man in uniform, possibly a scout leader, squats down to attend to it. In a clearing in the woods, a number of uniformed scouts, supervised by a scout leader, are involved in making a monkey bridge using wooden poles and some sturdy ropes. Someone demonstrates a clove hitch knot. Two boys now walk across the completed monkey bridge balancing along the central rope, and another boy is pulled across a rope bridge supspended on a kind of seat. Two fairly senior scouts, one a patrol leader, unpack a large parcel of food and equipment ready for the 'Robinson Crusoe' competition. Out in the woods now wearing casual shirts and shorts, they sit under a tree eating the food they have cooked over the camp fire. One boy exuberantly shins up a tall tree and then swings back down. Two more boys swim lengths in an outdoor swimming pool, pulling along some sort of bundle tied to a rope. Other boys try to pull another bundle over the water using ropes - but it drops in.

At Walton Firs, three boys cook round a camp fire as part of their Second Class Cooking Test.

December Church Parade. A crowd of uniformed cubs, scouts and sea scouts march across the road towards a church in a West London residential street.

The patrol competition. Four scouts look at a large model of a bridge, made from wood and string. Now they try to construct their own model, based on the one they have seen, using the materials and tools provided. They complete their task and stand behind their model looking very pleased with themselves.

The River Thames at Hammersmith or Fulham, with a lot of small rowing boats moored neart the bank. A group of sea scouts are rowing down the river. Then, having tied up their boat, they jump ashore. There is a bit of horse play and a lot of splashing as they pull the boat up out of the water and clean it off.