History

Past Events

1927 - Priory Park, Southend-on-Sea
1947 - Danbury Park, Chelmsford


1949
Belchamps
Scout Campsite, Hockley
 

1952
Belchamps
Scout Campsite, Hockley
 

1956
Belchamps
Scout Campsite, Hockley
 
           

1960
Belchamps
Scout Campsite, Hockley
 

1964
Belchamps
Scout Campsite, Hockley
 

1968
Belchamps
Scout Campsite, Hockley
 
           

1972
Belchamps
Scout Campsite, Hockley
 

1976
Belchamps
Scout Campsite, Hockley
 

1980
Belchamps
Scout Campsite, Hockley
 
           

1984
County Show Ground,
Great Leighs
 

1988
County Show Ground,
Great Leighs
 

1992
County Show Ground,
Great Leighs
 
           

1996
Devereux Farm,
Kirby-le-Soken
 

2000
Devereux Farm,
Kirby-le-Soken
 

2004
Devereux Farm,
Kirby-le-Soken
 
           

Jamboree Reunited ?

Why not catch up with old friends... from previous Essex Jamborees at the Scouts Reunited website...!

ScoutsReunited
Between 1949 and 1980 more than 15,000 Scouts from around the world have attended the Essex International Jamboree... including;
group photo








group photo

Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, British Guiana, Canada, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, England, Eire, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Gold Coast, Greece, Haiti, Holland, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Rhodesia, Seyschelles, Scotland, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States Of America and Wales.


Jamboree Gateway
jamboree gateway

Every Essex International Jamboree has had a gateway that has been built on the site to welcome all the visitors of the Jamboree
to Essex.

Buy the book !

Back in 1976, Tom Parrinder the then Assistant County Commissioner (International) wrote a short history of the Essex Jamborees which dealt with such things as why we have an Essex Jamboree, some of the many special visitors we have had, how the programme was laid out and on, and gave a list of the many overseas contingents we have hosted over the years.

Twenty years after Tom’s book Malcolm Treacher undertook the task of writing a further chapter bringing us up-to-date. This revised history was published in time for the fourteenth Essex International Jamboree held at Devereux Farm in 2000.

Copies of this small publication are still obtainable and can be obtained by sending a cheque for £2.00 made out to Essex County Scout Council along with a stamped addressed C5 envelope to

Bill Marshall, 47 Western Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM14 4SU, England.

Overseas enquiries, please email for details :