These Boy Scouts were enjoying a camping holiday in Southern Ireland.

They were members of the 11th Oxford (Forest Hill) group, and the holiday was made possible through Oxfordshire’s links with the motor industry.

Their holiday ‘resort’ was a 300-acre farm at Ballymore belonging to Cyril Booth who, apart from being an experienced and energetic farmer, played a major role in supplying Irish customers with vehicles.

He was responsible for the assembly and distribution of Wolseley and MG cars, and for distributing Nuffield tractors.

The Forest Hill Scout group was run by John Eynstone, who worked in stock control at Morris Motors, Cowley, assisted by Alfred John Blake, from Nuffield Press.

Many of the boys’ fathers also worked for the Nuffield Organisation at Cowley.

When the party arrived to start their holiday, help was at hand from another branch of the motor industry.

Mr W Poole, Nuffield distributor for Morris-Commercial in Ireland, laid on transport to the farm, 20 miles south of Dublin.

The picture above, which appeared in News Exchange, the Nuffield Organisation’s monthly magazine in November 1951, was sent in by Mr Blake, who now lives at Appleton.

Another picture taken at the farm and published in the magazine showed an impressive archway with a bell which, under Irish custom, was rung to call men from the fields for refreshments.

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