Lord Baden- Powell visits Crewe - 100 Years - Crewe, Cheshire East, England, UK. - Commercial Commemorations on Waymarking.com

The memorial stone is located in gardens in the Memorial Square in Crewe.

Baden-Powell visited Crewe on 25th March 1911, to review the Cheshire scouts during a rally held on the Alexandra Athletic Ground, the land where the Grand Junction Retail Park now stands.
The site originally chosen to place the stone was on the corner of Earle Street and Rainbow Street, a location that was on the route travelled by Baden-Powell in 1911.
The stone was originally unveiled on Remembrance Sunday in 2011 by Edward Timpson MP, as a commemoration to recognise the 100th Anniversary of Baden-Powells visit.

The stone was moved to Crewe's Memorial Square in 2015, as this was considered to be a more fitting location where the stone could be treated with respect and appeciated by the public. (visit link)

The inscription on the pillar reads as follows;
'Lord Baden Powell
Founder of the
Scout and Guide
Movements
came to review the
Scouts of Cheshire
at a Rally at the
Alexandra Athletic
Ground
Earle Street, Crewe
on 25th March 1911
This stone
was placed in 2011
to mark the
Centenary of the event'

Lord Baden Powell: (visit link)

South West Cheshire District Scout Association
It all began in Crewe on 24th February 1908.
"Scouting in this part of Cheshire goes right back to the birth of the Movement and Crewe was one of the first towns in the Country to form a Scout Troop. General Baden-Powell visited Crewe on 23rd January 1908 to explain his idea of Scouting at a ‘public meeting’ in the old Co-op Hall. This led to a further meeting of ‘interested persons’ held in the Mayors Parlour in February and the first Scout Troop was formed at Christ Church the same month, only 6 months after the famous camp on Brownsea Island where Scouting began.

In those days the Scout Troops in and around the town belonged to the ‘Crewe and District Boy Scout Association’. After the 1st Crewe (Christ Church) troop came the 2nd Crewe (Bedford Street School) troop followed by the 3rd Crewe (St. Andrews) troop.
By 1911 there were Scout troops at Nantwich, Elworth, Alsager and Wrenbury plus a ‘combined’ troop at Willaston and Shavington."
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Anniversary Year: 2011 Year of Event, Organization or Occurance: 1911 Address: Memorial Square, Earle Street, Crewe,, Cheshire East, England, UK. Website: Not listed

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