The Queen and HRH Prince Philip

On route to the Sutton Coldfield Jamboree picture taken at Yorks Wood

9th World Jamboree - The Jubilee Jamboree, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, 1957.

To celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Brownsea Island Camp and the Centenary of its Founder, B-P. , a combines Jamboree, Scouters Indaba and Rover Moot was held in Sutton Park - a beautiful natural park of 2,400 acres. 33,000 Scouts from 90 countries camped for 12 days in weather which ranged from a heat wave to a storm which flooded parts of the huge camp site. Many thousands more took the opportunity to camp in the surrounding countryside. Opened by HRH Prince Philip, the Prime Minister, Mr Harold MacMillan, and closed by the World Chief Guide, Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, it was the first Jamboree held in England to have its own commemorative postage stamps. One special aspect was the overwhelming hospitality offered to the participants by the people of the UK, both before and after the event.

Memories of Jamboree attendees

1957 Sutton Coldfield Jamboree. The biggest memory of the day we were there? The constant rain and the scouts camping on a hillside and the water pouring down that hill and almost washing out the site. What a day."

Isabel Clapham
Toronto ON Canada