Tag Archives: WA history

Remarkable Women: Paddy Firstenberg

Posted on February 17, 2015 by communications254

Continuing the Trefoil Guild’s celebration of Remarkable Women of Guiding for the centenary year, this month the spotlight is on Paddy Firstenberg… Paddy’s love of Guiding began in Ireland where she joined the movement as a Brownie in Tipperary. As … Continue reading →

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Warara International Lones Camp 1983

Posted on December 15, 2014 by communications254

Part of celebrating our Centenary year is looking back at some of the wonderful WA Guiding events, people and activities of the last 100 years. On this blog, we’ve added photos in albums dedicated to each decade in our gallery … Continue reading →

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Snippets from the past: Girl Guides WA’s Cenotaph Flag

Posted on November 26, 2014 by communications254

There was pride and excitement in 1931 when Lady Baden-Powell brought a Cenotaph flag to Australia. The Cenotaph is a war memorial situated on Whitehall in London. It is an empty tomb in memory of all service people who have fought and … Continue reading →

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Day 1 of #Jamboree100

Posted on October 6, 2014 by communications254

Picnic in the Park – recap Hundreds of girls and leaders arrived at GO Edwards Park in Burswood today for Day 1 of the Centenary Jamboree. The leaders registered their units at the registration desk, got their goody bags, and … Continue reading →

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A snapshot from 1st Collie Guides

Posted on August 26, 2014 by communications254

1st Collie Company was very proud to be known as the “Governor’s Own Company,” since  1915 when they were given that title by Governor Barron in honour of being one of the first country Guide Companies formed in WA. Country … Continue reading →

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Centenary goodies now available

Posted on August 8, 2014 by communications254

Girl Guides love memorabilia – everyone knows that. Just look at our camp blankets! Girl Guides WA has created some great little goodies to help celebrate and commemorate our Centenary year. They start from 80c for a sticker right up the the … Continue reading →

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WA Girl Guides in WWI Effort (1914-18)

Posted on August 5, 2014 by communications254

We’ve mentioned before that there were a number of ways Girl Guides in WA helped in both World Wars. We will cover WWII in a later blogpost, but during WWI Girl Guides found creative ways to contribute to our soldiers’ welfare. … Continue reading →

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Don’t you just love old photos?

Posted on June 11, 2014 by communications254

We have just installed a couple of photo albums on our Gallery page of the blog that you might like to check out. So far we have two albums: Historical Photos and In the Media. Highlights In the Historical Photos album, … Continue reading →

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