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...!

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

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.

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.

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