Guiding in the frame at Lossie exhibition
time for reflection in tribute to former leader who died of cancer
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A TWO-DAY exhibition of photographs featuring the Guiding movement at a Moray town opens today.
Organisers have spent months collecting more than 500 photographs of people, places, events and fishing boats at Lossiemouth for the biannual exhibition at the town hall.
Among the highlights is an album of photos of the 3rd Lossiemouth Guide Company. A short film will also be on display.
The film was made as a tribute to former Guide leaders Charlotte Paul (known as Lottie), and former Guide lieutenant Jessie McLeod, who ran the 3rd Company together for 40 years, from 1957 to 1997.
Miss Paul died of cancer nine years ago but Miss McLeod, of Seatown in Lossiemouth, was yesterday reunited with one of her former guides, Fiona Campbell, now 21.
Miss Campbell, of Prospect Terrace, Lossiemouth, was the youngest guide in the company when Miss McLeod, 73, retired from the movement in 1997.
Exhibition organiser Catherine Wood, of Dunbar Street, said Miss McLeod and Miss Paul were innovative in their approach.
She said: “They used to take large groups of girls to Paris and Guernsey for camping holidays in the 1950s, when continental travel was unheard of, and in all the years of trips there was never a major catastrophe.”
The exhibition, which is now in its third year, raises hundreds of pounds for the hall funds, and will be open between 2pm and 8pm today and tomorrow.
