The Angelmead Venture Scouts and Ranger Guides were an ambitious group of youngsters.

We featured them (Memory Lane, September 2 2019) as they loaded up their two former British Rail vans for a camping trip to Portugal in 1972.

The picture above was taken outside Jeune Street Methodist Church, off Cowley Road, Oxford, the following year as they prepared to leave for a two-week expedition to Denmark.

This time, they were filling two minibuses with supplies of food and camping equipment.

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The trip had been inspired by one of the Guide leaders, Inge Archer, who once lived in the district where the group would be camping.

The party hit one late problem - the fall in the value of the pound.

The cost of the trip was calculated at £33 per head, but the pound, once worth 15 Danish kroner, had fallen to 13.5 kroner.

Another Guide leader, Eileen Hawkes, said: “With these currency problems, we may have to ask our members for an extra pound or two.”

The 24-strong party - 18 Scouts and Guides and six leaders - planned the spend their time hiking, canoeing and sightseeing.

The Angelmead Venture Scouts and the Cowley Ranger Guides had broken new ground in 1970 by amalgamating, despite misgivings in the Scout and Guide hierarchy. Senior figures had serious doubts about allowing the two sexes to go to camp together.

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A successful trip to Cornwall in 1971 eased their worries and Miss Hawkes and fellow leader John Townsend were given permission to take the group to sunny Lisbon in 1972.

For more on Oxfordshire Scouts visit oxonscouting.org.uk and for the Girl Guides visit oxfordshiregirlguiding.org.uk.