Windback Wednesday - Gilbert Wood Scout Hall

The Scout Hall, located at 4 Kennaway Street, Tusmore, was opened in 1938 by Mrs Gilbert E. Wood. It is now known as the Gilbert Wood Scout Hall.

Gilbert E. Wood, the first president of the Group Council of the 1st Linden Park Boy Scouts, and his wife Mrs Gilbert E. Wood, were noted philanthropists and donated to a variety of charitable institutions, among which was the 1st Linden Park Scout Group for whom this hall was constructed. It is a simple face red brick hall with a projecting stepped parapet to the front elevation. A sheltering verandah has been added to the front supported by narrow Tuscan columns. The hall itself has small high windows to either side and a tall brick chimney on the southern elevation projecting through a corrugated iron roof. It sits in the northern section of Tusmore Park close to the creek.

The hall is both indicative of the provision of local facilities for community activities such as scouting during the interwar years and also evidence of the philanthropy of notable families in Burnside during this period.

The hall in 1938. State Library of South Australia, PRG 287/1/6/34

The hall in 2022.