Wood Badge
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Wood Badge is a Scout leader training program, first implemented by The Boy Scouts Association in the United Kingdom in 1919 and subsequently adopted, with variations, by some other Scout organization
Wood Badge beads on a Gilwell scarf or neckerchief.
Wood Badge with three beads (training staff) and Gilwell scarf and woggle
King Dinuzulu, wearing what is possibly the necklace from which the original Wood Badge beads came
MacLaren Tartan
Gilwell Park
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Gilwell Park is the headquarters and principal camp site of The Scout Association in the United Kingdom. It is a 109-acre site on the northeastern outskirts of London, located within Epping Forest in
Wood Badge
…tartan honours William de Bois Maclaren, The Boy Scouts Association commissioner who donated £7000 to The Boy Scouts Association in 1919 to purchase Gilwell Park as a leader training centre and an additional £3000 for improvements to the house on the estate. The Maclaren tartan represents the Wood Badge and…
Gilwell Park, Chingford, Essex geograph.org.uk 886098
Epping Forest was a regular haunt of Dick Turpin.
Old London Bridge balustrade at Gilwell Park