Surrey Comet | Kingston's Scout History

Centenary events

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:10:00 +0100

August 1: District Sunrise Ceremony At 8am on August 1, 1907, scouting's founder Robert Baden-Powell blew his kudu horn on Brownsea Island in Dorset to open the world's first scout camp.

Riding along on the crest of a wave

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:11:00 +0000

No longer is being a scout simply about gaining badges and singing songs around a camp fire. As the movement celebrates its centenary it has reinvented itself and, as HOLLYE BLADES discovers, there are now waiting lists to join some of the borough's scout groups.

Tunes of glory

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:35:00 +0000

The young, fit, patriotic men who comprised Kingston and District's 37 scoutmasters and assistant scoutmasters in 1914 were among the first to volunteer for active service.

Just the job in World War I

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:21:00 +0000

JUNE SAMPSON discloses the contribution local scouts made during World War One.

Local troops show the way

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:27:00 +0000

JUNE SAMPSON charts some of the early achievements and events that swiftly won national acclaim for our local troops, as they helped to lay the foundations of what became the worlds largest voluntary youth organisation.

100 years to shout about

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:55:00 +0000

JUNE SAMPSON reflects on 100 years of scouting in Kingston and discovers that the Royal borough was one of the first places in the world to found a scout troop.