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Built circa1921. The Sherwood Boys Scout Patrol was founded in 1910, just three years after Lord Baden Powell’s scouting movement was established in Britain. James Knox-Dunn organised this Patrol, with a dozen boys, aged 8-17. In 1921, it became Sherwood Scout troop, under ex-Major Charles Trotter. This maybe when the Hall was built, from volunteer labour. In 1925, the Girl Guides were established in Sherwood.
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Ralph Fones, Suburban Conservatism in the Sherwood Shire 1891-1920, (Brisbane: University of Queensland M.A. thesis, 1993)
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QSA. QSA Series 1748 Moreton District, County of Stanley Maps – A1 Series. 1 chain to the inch. Memorial Park Estate, Graceville, being subdivisions of Port 15, two resubdivisions A of Subdivisions 5281,153-165, Parish of Oxley, County of Stanley for sale by Realty Development Co Ltd. 1 chains/inch. H James, Lithographers, Queen St, Brisbane. 620605