Original 1929 girl guide ranger book

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July 1929, 1st Hawkhurst Rangers personal "Girl Guide log book. Created only 20 years after the Girl Guides were first formed in 1909.
There is various writing including a girl called Violet and the guide guide leader "Brown Owl, it contains stories and the diary of their travels around France and Rouen etc.
The contents include 58 pages, 26 photos, 43 postcards, travel tickets, a 1000 lire note and a drawing The photos include photos of the guides themselves, Algerian girl guides and French Boy Scouts.
A rare survivor and an important bit of social history, the Girl Guides is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only. The movement began in 1909 when girls requested to join the then-grassroots Boy Scout Movement (The movement developed in diverse ways in a variety of places around the world. In some places, girls joined or attempted to join pre-existing Scouting organisations In other places, all girl groups were started independently; some would later open up to boys, while others merged with boys' organizations. In other cases, mixed-sex groups were formed, some of which sometimes later disbanded. In the same way, the name "Girl Guide" or "Girl Scout" has been used by a variety of groups across different times and places.
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) was formed in 1928 and has member organisations in 145 countries WAGGGS celebrated the centenary of the international Girl Guiding and Girl
Scouting Movement over three years, from 2010 to 2012.
Email on rarity from girl guides organisation below;
Good morning
Thank you so much for showing us this logbook. You are absolutely right when you say such things are rare.
I have been in touch with some archivists but so far had no luck. Hawkhurst is now in the Girlguiding county we know as Kent Weald but in the 1920s it would have been part of the Girlguiding county of Kent East. Our database (as has been confirmed when you contacted Headquarters) has no record of 1st Hawkhurst Rangers although there were and are Brownies and Guides.
I will continue my investigations for you with archivists in Kent East and get back to you if I can find out anything more
Kind regards
Jane
Jane Harvey
Learning, Development and Events Administrator
Girlguiding London and South East England
3 Jaggard Way, London, SW 12 8SG
Cash on collection from Poole.

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