Scouts cleaned up at Lord Mayor's Parlour (From Oxford Mail)

Scouts cleaned up at Lord Mayor's Parlour

10:00am Monday 29th June 2009 in

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THE Lord Mayor’s Parlour got some extra spit and polish in March 1964 – thanks to some Scouts doing their bit for Bob-a-Job week.

Scouts went door to door offering to do household chores for a shilling.

The annual campaign was officially renamed Scout Job Week in 1970 as impending decimalisation of the currency meant the end was nigh for the ‘bob’.

The crack cleaning team was made up of, from the top, Derek Bodey, 12, and Dennis Lock, 13, of the 15th Oxford Group, and Christopher Purnell, 14, of the 28th Oxford group.

They carried out the clean-up under the eagle of eyes of the Lord Mayor, Alderman Alec Parker, and the Sheriff of Oxford, Air Vice-Marshal WF McNeece Foster.