From the Guyra Archives held at the Guyra Museum compiled Dorothy Lockyer

23rd Sep 2025

The Scout Hall (Cnr Nincoola and White Streets, Guyra)

On 18th March 1965 the 1st Guyra Scout Group Committee, under the Presidency of Don Bowden, purchased the Everett School building for 412 Pounds and moved the school to the present site in Nincoola Street for a cost of 175 Pounds.
The Everett School is the northern part of the Scout Hall and was built in 1940. Everett School started in August 1886 and closed in February 1964.
The southern part of the Scout Hall, which was the Mogg’s Swamp School building, was added to the Hall in May 1971. It was built around 1943.
The Mogg’s Swamp School was given to the 1st Guyra Scout Group free of charge but the removal cost was $1,000. Mogg’s Swamp School opened in August 1911 and closed in April 1969.
Scouting began in Guyra in 1920 and held meetings in various halls and building in the town, including the Guyra Jockey Club building and under the old pavilion at the Guyra Showground. (The Scout Hall is located on part of what once was the Guyra Racecourse.)
It was in August 1947 that the Guyra Shire Council
decided to set aside a triangular block of land bounded by White Street, Nincoola Street and the TSR, as a site for a Boy Scout’s Hall.
Later that year, in an address to the members of the Guyra Rotary Club, Mr. F.B. Howard, Field Commissioner, New South Wales Boy Scout Association spoke on ’the necessity of providing a Scout’s Club Hall’.
Opening his address, Mr. Howard said that Scouting, with its principal aim to
promote the supplanting of self with service, was probably the nearest approach to Junior Rotary in existence.
Rotary was an old friend of Scouting. After giving valuable assistance Rotary invariably faded out of the picture, giving an example of real community services.
The Scouts continued to meet in various buildings in Guyra until 1965 when the Everett School became their “Home”.

Major renovations of the Scout Hall by the Rotary Club of Guyra are now substantially complete.
This entailed plumbing and electrical works, painting inside and out, new guttering, replacement of some timbers, restumping, repair/replace windows and security screens. Funding for this work was provided by the Crown Lands Improvement Fund.
The Hall now needs a new kitchen, a disability access ramp, blinds, tables, chairs, projector & screen.

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From the Guyra Archives held at the Guyra Museum compiled Dorothy Lockyer

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