Boy Scouts - Girl Scouts - Spelling Bee
1972 - These boots are made for shining. And they're just some of many boots 10-year old Steven Arnold and his mates will be cleaning this week, Mind you, to clean the Army's boots is a bit of a tall order, but for Steven, of Paxton Avenue, Slough, it's all in a day's - and a week's work, Today is the start of scout job week (it used to be Bob-a -Job week) and as part of their effort scouts and cub-scouts throughout the country are running operation show shine. So to get in panty of practices Steven and his pal Jonathan Clements, both cub scouts in the 4th Slough group went along to Windsor's Victoria barracks to try their hand art cleaning some of the boots of guardsmen in the 1st. Battalion Scots Guards. And afterwards the army seemed very pleased- especially as the lads were only charging 5p. a pair
