This year marks the centenary of the Guiding movement and the 1st Peebles Company – of which these happy campers were members – has a special reason for celebration.

It was the first outfit in Scotland to register with the fledgling organisation.

If this photograph is of the first camp, the Guides didn't move far from home. The site would be Venlaw Castle on the edge of the town. They later ventured to Kailzie and Portmore.

It is possible that included in this picture is Nettie Borthwick who was the first to be awarded the Guiding movement's life-saving medal after rescuing a boy from drowning.

Heroic aviator Amy Johnson once visited the Guides and signed autographs.

An exhibition marking the centenary is currently on view at the Chambers Institute in Peebles.

And on Page 11 of TheSouthern, our reporter Sally Gillespie looks back at the history of the Peebles Guides, who were truly the first in Scotland.