Thirty five countries were represented by 30,000 Scouts, plus another 10,000 British Scouts who took the opportunity of camping in the vicinity. It was certainly the greatest assembly of international youth the world had ever seen up to that time. Two things stand out from the Arrowe Park Jamboree – the numbers and the mud. It rained so much that the clay soil could not absorb the waterand the site soon resembled a sea of mud.