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Our County Archivist, Bridget Eade, has spent many hours collecting items from the past which help to illustrate in a hands-on way, what Guides had to do to earn various badges. She is keen to gather up even more resources to complete the kits she has created so far.
Over the period of the project we will be asking you if you have or could find for us missing items. We are starting with the Laundry/Laundress Badge.
Requirements to Illustrate Badge Syllabus
LAUNDRY/LAUNDRESS
1. Reckitt/Colman's blue bag (helped keep ‘whites' "whiter than white"!)
2. Robin starch - small sq. box about 5" x 5" x 5"
3. Lux soap flakes
4. Scrub board/wash board (metal slats inside wooden frame)
5. Old galvanized bucket for soaking, washing
 6. Small flat iron that was heated on an open fire - the iron may be scruffy and/or slightly rusty in places but must NOT be painted over to ‘spiv it up'
7. Scruffy, well used, pitted stick approx 3' long and 2 fingers thick for stirring washing in bucket
8. Old packet of soda for stain removal
9. Wooden scrubbing brush approx 9" long and 3"- 4" wide - tough bristles, no varnish on brush, used for scrubb9ing clothes on wash board
10. Old dollie pegs as made by the gypsies (thin metal band around peg made of wood)
11. Old metal (quite thick) preserving pan could be used to boil teacloths and white napkins
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