“The Girl Guide Movement is what it is because it gives every girl a chance of learning how to enjoy herself healthily and how to be useful joyfully.”

“The Guider” reported 300 Guide Companies were already at camp in a “quiet valley in Kent surrounded by wooded hills, carpeted with bluebells in May.”

The camping ground was purchased by the City Parochial Foundation and the deeds were handed to the Hon. Treasurer of the Girl Guide Association on 14 May 1938.

The World Chief Guide, Olave Lady Baden Powell, visited the Festival Camp here in 1951.

Photo shows her watering a young beech tree - the Festival Beech.

Breakfast

Scrambled Eggs, Bread,

Butter, Marmalade, Tea

Lunch

Pot Roast, Mashed Potatoes,

Carrots, Summer Pudding

Supper

Cheese Dreams, Bread, Butter,

Jam, Tea