SCOUTING HISTORY

Founded by Baden Powell who was known affectionately as B-P.

• B-P took 20 boys to Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour for the first Boy Scout camp in the summer of 1907.
  
• In 1908 B-P brought out Scouting For Boys; this book started the Scout Movement world wide.
  
• In 1910 B-P resigned from the Army and devoted his life to the movement
  
• 1912 saw him embark on a world tour to visit Scouts in many countries.
  
• At the world’s first Jamboree in London B-P was claimed “Chief Scout of the World”
  
• B-P died in Kenya on January 8th 1941 a month before his eighty-fourth birthday.
  
• Scouts from Kenilworth joined the Coventry Scouts in 1906 according to Harold Gloster who himself joined 1st Kenilworth (we think ) in 1908.
  
• 1908 could have been the first registration of a group in Kenilworth.
  
• When Louis Bleriot came to Coventry from France about 1910 six Kenilworth Scouts “looked after Bleriot’s plane at night on the Holyhead Road”
  
• In John Drew’s book “Yesterday’s Town” there is reproduced an entry from the log book of the 1st Kenilworth Scout Troop dated 1912.
  
• The present 1st Kenilworth Group was registered for a second time in 1922.
  
• Kenilworth District Registered 1st Jan. 1978
  
• Scout & Guide Centre, Castle Farm, opened 17th June 1995.