Bob...Roger this !!! However when I joined in Dec-1956 no one in Blenheim Troop wore leather belts.May be as you say they were issued earlier and people kept them.But as I say I never saw any.Jut remember the normal Blanco one...Now there's a B...y beast if ever there was one.What a B...y waste of time that all was..Well all part of the discipline I supposed.Hated that Blanco room cleaning !!.So we bash on...Regards to Friend and your crew and all others looking in...John.VDG.

Memories!!!! Last photo in the Gallery

Be I Wiltshire? be I buggery,
I comes up from Wareham,
Where all the girls wear calico drawers,
So all the boys can tear ‘em. taken from a post on the royal hussars site

A few questions/ observations. First ..my room Cpl when I joined was a lad called Fisher (went to the 9th or 12th Lancers a nice lad) our SD had a box collar and we wore a brown leather belt.Thank heavens we wore the Spanner and not our Reg dogs( I was going to join the 4/7th the Tanks even fancied the RHG The Bays sounded great aswell but I ended up in the QOH)I see photos of early days with web belts worn with SD ,when did this start/stop

Good question Codders, I to have had thoughts about the leather belt, I have a Troop photo ( circa 1957 ) where most of the Boy NCO's are wearing the web belt with others the leather. I always thought the leathers a pain in the a... as it was too easy to spoil the bulling especially when threading though the buckle ( one of which I still have ), one or two lads managed to fix a hook on the belt so there was not a need to remove the buckle, on another matter some had a boot lace running through their buttons, instead of being sewn to their SD, OK until some wise guy pulled one of the buttons making the SD ride up; if a PS did it one was in trouble ....... Happy Days, well some were .....
Hope all is well, Dick.

During my time in the Boys Squadron - 1954 -56 a brown, highly polished belt was worn with SD working dress. Webbing belts were worn for parades, ceremonials etc. My leather belt had a home made hook to avoid spoiling the polish by passing the belt through the buckle.

Same as Dick but the only way I could stop the brass runners marking was to blanco, put them on then blanco again. Oh! I nearly forgot, the brass at the back had to be highly polished as well.
I remember I was out in Weymouth with Don Marsh who had met some of the Weymouth gang, who he knew, and as they wanted to have a fight his leather belt came in handy as he rapped it around his fist with the buckle on the outside. We never did have that fight.
I don't think my leather belt would get around me now!!

Charlie, regarding the brass runners, though I think there is another name, would it be slides?, one of the first things I was shown to do, by Paul ( Woody ) Woodall, was, using the handle of your eating knife something to hit the knife and a stone step, the knife was inserted into the slide and belted so the kink on the ends was flattened then the same along the length so they also were flat it was then the fairly long process of smoothing off the slides using a piece of slate and Brasso to help get shine required. This also made it easier to re-assemble the belt as the slides were then slightly larger.
But then you probably knew all about this being older, Tee! Hee!
Hope your Golf course isn't too shrivelled .......

Going around the golf course is like walking on Cornflakes

I take it that is before the milk is put in the bowl ??

Not a game for me....never understood the off side rule !!!!

Borrowed this from my daughter's Facebook page.
Last photo in the Gallery