On Whit Sunday 29th May 1955 about ‘Forty members who, in pursuit of their pastime, traverse the rougher and less beaten ways’ attended the inaugural meeting of the Rough-Stuff Fellowship held at the ‘Black Swan’, Leominster. Charlie Chadwick of Bolton took the chair by general approval. Right from the start, we learn from the minutes, there was some controversy about whether a minimum age of 16 should be set and after the considerable debate, this was approved.