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My younger sister,Nancy, and I joined the brownies at Trinity Congregational church in High Wycombe where we lived and where our family all worshipped.Our Bown Owl was Stella Plumley and her husband Alf was in the navy. He spent some time in New Zealand where he made contact with a Brown Owl on north island and she gave him names and addresses of her brownies who would like pen friends in England. These he sent back home and our Brown Owl passed them on to us.
My pen friend was a Pauline Taft and we corresponded for some years, but Nancy is still in contact with her pen pal Elizabeth,some 60 years later.
Elizabeth's mum would send us food parcels which caused great excitement when they arrived. All sorts of goodies were crammed into a half biscuit tin, wrapped round with several layers of newspaper and then sewn into a canvas cover - I dread to think what the postage must have cost. Elizabeth's mum also corresponded with our Mum and sent calendars at Christmas.
Nancy still dreams of meeting Elizabeth one day, but so far the nearest contact has been a meeting with the sister of Elizabeth's late husband. She and a friend came over to England in the late fifties and Nancy & I met them by the statue of Peter Pan in Hyde Park.
Bown Owl and her husband are still alive though "getting on a bit" and the Brownie pack still thrives at Trinty.

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