100 years of the Girl Guides
Topics: brian saunders, first day cover, girl scouts, girl's brigade, girlguiding uk, pat keely, philatelic, postal history, PostalHeritage, postmark, william henry brown
At a Boy Scout rally at Crystal Palace in 1909 a group of girls turned up and demanded something for them; luckily Scouting founder Lord Baden Powell was thinking along the same lines, and the Girl Guide movement was formed. A century on, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has 10 million members in more than 140 countries, and in the UK the Guides are the largest youth organisation in the country, with 550,000 members. …

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