The Brownie Guide Handbook, 1972 version, printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd, Butten Market Ipswich, owned by Nancy Lloyd, 1970s.

Paperback book with textured cover. The front and back covers are colour printed, the top third of both covers is brown, the middle section blue and the bottom section yellow. The front of the book has an illustration of a Brownie in her uniform and the blue background has smaller pictures of Brownies performing various duties and activities such as painting and gardening.. The back cover has a Brownie motif in the blue section. the book is printed with colour illustrations throughout and explains that one can expect from being a Brownie, from explaining how the group came about to what skills badges you can attain to how to wear and keep your uniform.

Given by Eleanor Lloyd (Dhiraprabha)

This handbook was owned by Nancy Lloyd, sister of the donor. There were four sisters who all went to Bronies and Guides in Welwyn Garden City in the 1970s.

This Brownie Guide Handbook was owned by a girl called Nancy when she was a Brownie Guide in the 1970s. The Brownies were one of the youth movements started by Robert Baden-Powell in 1914 as the younger version of the Girl Guides.
They were originally called Rosebuds but the name proved unpopular and was changed to Brownies, named after the helpful little creatures that appeared in fairy story, 'The Brownies And Other Tales' written in 1879 by Mrs Juliana Ewing. The handbook tells a Brownie all the things they will be expected to know and do including a list of all the badges a Brownie can gain and instructions for how to achieve them.

B.229-2010