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About our unit
Parade Nights
We meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:00pm - 9:15pm
Rear of the Cadet Centre
Silverlands
Buxton
Derbyshire
SK17 6QE ( for Directions )
We Sail at Errwood Reservoir on Saturdays 9.00am - 1.00pm ( April - September )
Contacts
If you want further information you can contact us at the following:
Mr Bruce Luckman (Commanding Officer) Tel No. 01298 78092
Mr Martin Fisher (Committee Chairman) Tel No. 01298 78756
or you can e-mail us at luckmanb@aol.com
Due to the increased popularity and subsequent increase in cadet numbers, more staff are needed to join our dedicated team, if you think you can help us in anyway please contact us.
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2010 Calendar
January
12th Jan Unit Review - Cancelled
February
16th Feb Committee Meeting 7:30pm at the Unit
25th Feb Unit Review
26th Feb Unit Dinner
March
16th Mar Committee Meeting
20th Mar Bag Pack at Marks & Spencer
22nd Mar Bag2school collection
27th Mar Quiz night Buxton Football club
April
2nd Apr Good Friday ( Bank holiday )
4th Apr Easter Sunday
5th Apr Easter Monday ( Bank holiday )
19th Apr Area Shooting Competition
May
3rd May ( Bank holiday ) Open Day at Errwood Sailing Club 12:00 - 16:00
8th May Hollingworth Lake Weekend
15th May Stall outside Methodist Church on Market Place
31st May ( Spring Bank holiday )
June
5th Jun Rotary Bazzar
6th Jun Sea Sunday at the Methodist Church 11:00am Full Blues
12th Jun Street Collection
19th Jun Stall outside Methodist Church, Market Place
26th Jun 12 Hour Race Southport
July
10th July Combined Area Regatta
17th July Buxton Carnival
30th July - 1st Aug Area Race Training Weekend
August
8th Aug Cadets to Weymouth for the week
30th Aug ( Summer Bank holiday )
September
11th-12th Sept Southport 24 hour
17th Sept National Sail Competition ( Southport )
24th Sept Hollingworth Lake Weekend
October
Working Party Errwood
21st Oct Trafalgar Day Parade
November
6th Nov Bag pack Morrisons
14th Nov Remembrance Sunday
20th Nov Dickensian Market
December
25th Dec Christmas Day ( as if you didn't know )
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Come on Board !
You will never be bored in the Sea Cadets, we are simply the best. Not only the nation's number one nautical youth charity, but also the junior image of Britain's Senior Service - The Royal Navy.
Visit naval bases, warships and air stations.
Fly in Navy helicopters or get to grips with the commando skills of the Royal Marines.
It's all here on your doorstep - the number one youth action station. so come aboard and see for yourself - come and join our great crew
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Training and Courses
We teach a range of courses including 1st Aid, Drill, Seamanship, .22 Target Rifle Shooting, Sailing and many others.
Activities include :-
• Sailing – This is our main activity
• Sailing competitions – District, Area, National
• Shooting- At the unit, Postal shoot
• Swimming – District, Area, National
• Weekend Camps including the Buxton Carnival
There are many courses open to the cadet at both District and National establishments, these include :-
• Hollingworth Lake – Weekend sailing, pulling, power boating
• Caledonia – Weeks sailing on the sea at Rosyth, Scotland. At Port Edgar on the Firth of the forth.
• Earl of Romney
• H.M.S. Raleigh
• Royalist
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Unit History
We are compiling the history of the Unit. If you have any information to add to the details below, or any corrections to make, please let us know( e-mail to mischofield@fsmail.net )
The Unit was probably first formed in the late 1930’s. It was certainly operating successfully in 1942. It was based at Kent’s Bank School. For a period from 1945 until 1959, the Unit seems to have stopped operating. In 1959, the Unit was restarted at Normanton School. In 1975, the Unit moved to premises in Ashwood Dale, owned by ICI. The building used to be an Isolation Hospital. In 1975? The HQ was changed to the Thermal Baths in The Crescent. In 1978, came the final move to the present site at Silverlands on land owned by the Ministry of Defence.
Commanding Officers
1938? C.O. Commander Cook
1960? C.O. John Rodgers
C.O. Wing Commander Reg Hyde (or High)
1968? C.O. Laurie Dunn
1975 C.O. Viv Green
1978 C.O. Ken Fowler
C.O. Bruce Luckman
Unit Activities
In the early days at Kent’s Bank School, the main activities were general seamanship, small arms drill, gymnastics and sailing. Sailing used to take place on Sundays at Combs Reservoir, Chapel-en-le Frith, after which the C.O. would take everyone back to his house in Chapel for afternoon tea in the garden. The cadets met on two nights a week and were able to use the equipment in the gymnasium. Boxing instruction was given by PO Webb, a very well known local boxer. In the school yard was a platform on a pole about 12 feet high, with access by a rope ladder. This was used for leadline sounding practice. Much fun was had with this.
By 1942, the Unit had 60/70 cadets. The Unit had a good band, trained by CPO Slack. The Unit was well known for its gymnastic displays and its parade drills. There was certainly a performance in The Crescent in 1944.
From 1959 onwards at Normanton School, the cadets came from the school, which had many pupils from overseas, as well as the town and surrounding villages. At this time, the Unit could put on a guard of very tall lads and so was popular, often travelling to Sheffield, Stockport, Manchester and Chesterfield.
Information provided by Bill Merrick, President of Buxton and High Peak RNA and Lieutenant Viv Green, former C.O.
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History of HMS Bulwark
There have been seven ships bearing the name BULWARK stretching back to 1777 when the first, a 3rd Rate 74-gun vessel was ordered. The latest ship was commissioned on 28th April 2005 built by BAE systems at the Barrow-in-Furness shipyard. HMS Bulwark is an Amphibious Assault Landing Platform Dock (LPD) ship.
History of HMS Bulwark , HMS Bulwark , HMS Bulwark, Albion & Centaur Association
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The Seventh HMS Bulwark on the day the Royal Navy took possesion, built by BAE Systems and the people of Barrow.
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