The 1st Berowra Scout Group was registered on 19th September 1929 with Evan Hughes as the first Scoutmaster. Evan lived in Allan Road, opposite the junction of Wideview Road. Unfortunately early records of the Group have been difficult to find. Our neighbouring Scouts Groups of Hornsby and Mt Colah/Mt Kuring-gai were registered in 1916 and 1971 respectively (although an earlier Mt Kuring-gai Group existed from 1953).

To get a feeling for the period in which the Group was started it may be helpful to record some events of 1929. That year saw:

• the New York Stock Exchange collapse in the last week of October. This event heralded the beginning of The Great Depression of 1929-33;
• the NSW government reduce the basic wage from £4/5/- to £3/12/6 on 1 November;
• NSW Timberworkers strike to protest the Commonwealth Arbitration Court's award which declared a 48-hour week and Saturday work (prior conditions were a 44-hour, 5-day week);
• Australia's population reach 6,436,000;
• a sharp decline in Australia in the number of births, and the number of emigrants exceed the number of immigrants for the first time.
• the government suspend immigration until jobs could be found for the large number of unemployed;
• compulsory military training suspended on 8 November;
• the unveiling of the Martin Place Cenotaph on 21 February;
• the former Bunnerong Power Station begin operating on 2 January;
• the Scouting Movement's founder, Robert Baden-Powell,
• on the occasion of the Jamboree at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, UK (marking the 21st Anniversary of the Scout Movement), created a Baron with the title Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell.
• receive the Order of the Phoenix (Greece), the order of the White Lion (Czechoslovakia) and the Order of Merit, First Class (Hungary);
• receive the freedom of the English cities of Poole, Blandford and London;
• awarded an Honorary LL.D. degree from Liverpool University;
• publish "Scouting and Youth Movements"; and
• while cruising in the "Duchess of Richmond" with Lady B.-P. visit British, Spanish, Portuguese, and French Scouts and Guides - a very eventful year;
• the Baden-Powell Training Camp at Pennant Hills opened by the Governor General Lord Stonehaven, Commonwealth Chief Scout;
• Hornsby Chamber of Commerce try unsuccessfully to get an adequate permanent water main as far as Brooklyn;
• Harrison Ford and Georgia Hale starring in "Woman Against the World" at the Hornsby Cinema on 4th January 1929. Prices were 3/-, 2/-, 1/- and reserves 4/-;
• Roy's Butchery in Coronation Street, Hornsby selling prime pork chops at 1/- lb and prime sirloin at 9d lb.
• plans to have the Strathfield-Hornsby rail line electrified (the North Sydney to Hornsby line was already electrified);
• Australia issue its first air mail stamp on 20 May - cost 3d. ;The stamp depicts a pastoral scene with a sheep and gum trees and an aeroplane as its chief subjects;
• Sir James Barrie donate the royalties from "Peter Pan" to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London;
• 27 people drown in Tasmania when the Cascade Dam (750 million gallons capacity) burst on 7 April;
• temperatures in Sydney on 9 January reach 111ºF (43.9ºC), and the city ringed by bushfires whilst southern Tasmania experiences snowfalls;
• the births of the following famous people: Anne Frank (author of The Diary of Anne Frank); the US civil rights leader Martin Luther King; politicians Ian Sinclair, John Douglas Anthony and Robert James Lee Hawke; actresses Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly; sportsmen Jimmy Carruthers (world champion bantam-weight boxer) and Eddie Charlton (snooker champion); and composer Peter Sculthorpe.