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1909 Crystal Palace Scout Rally

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137:. They dressed in the Girl Scout uniform as given in the Scout handbook, called themselves Girl Scouts, were referred to as Girl Scouts by the media and others and were registered as Boy Scouts. Girls had been part of the Scout Movement almost as soon as it began. A contingent of girls from Peckham Rye spoke to Baden-Powell at the Rally. The rally was the first time Baden-Powell was able to discern clearly how many girls were interested in Scouting, although he knew there were several thousand. 33: 156:
organisations. In December 1909, Baden-Powell decided to create a similar but separate programme for girls. In those days, for girls to camp and hike was not common, as this extract from the Scout newspaper shows: "If a girl is not allowed to run, or even hurry, to swim, ride a bike, or raise her
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arms above her head, how can she become a Scout?", though it is a curiosity, as in those days many girls and young women belonged to bicycle clubs. Agnes Baden-Powell became the first president of the Girl Guides.
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on Saturday, 4 September 1909. The rally demonstrated the rapid popularisation of Scouting with an estimated 11,000 boys attending with the prominent presence of Girl Scouts also being significant for the start of
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Members of the local Scout Troop, 2nd Croydon (1st Crystal Palace Patrol), formed part of the flag party for
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magazine in October–December 1909 initiated by Miss Violet Markham, led to the founding, in 1910, of the
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leading to challenges regarding the 4th Scout Law that "A Scout is ... a brother to every other scout".
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Several hundred Girl Scouts also attended, including one group under their Patrol Leader
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Some controversy occurred with attempts to exclude Scouts from the
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Attendees who later influenced Scouting and Guiding included
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Index

Crystal Palace Rally

Boy Scouts
the Crystal Palace
London
Girl Scouts
Girl Guides
Scouting for Boys
The Scout
Robert Baden-Powell
Brownsea Island Scout Camp
Jamborees
World Scout Jamborees
British Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts organisation
Scouts' Own
H. Geoffrey Elwes
Princess Christian
Marguerite de Beaumont
Girl Guides organisation
Agnes Baden-Powell
Girl Guide and Girl Scout
Nesta G. Ashworth
Lone Guides
Rotha Lintorn-Orman
Nella Levy
Guiding in Australia
Girlguiding UK
Maze
Crystal Palace Park

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