They met at the dancing as 12-year-old girls, and more than seven decades later, six Dumfries women are still the best of pals.
Now all aged 84, Morag Johnstone, Jeanette McNaught, May Foster, Jean McDowall, Margaret Black and Margaret Biggar say their lifetime of friendship has been something “very special” for them all.
Morag said: “We call ourselves The 1939 Girls because that’s the year we were born.