On 4^th October 2008 the Boys’ Brigade movement was exactly 125 years old. The founder was William Alexander Smith who held the first meeting at 8pm in the North Woodside Mission Halls in Glasgow.  Since that first meeting the BB has grown into a world wide organisation with companies in places like America, Canada and Africa.

To celebrate 125 years the four remaining Hawick companies opened a shop in Hawick for the first week in October displaying memorabilia from the previous six Hawick companies, The BB Band, The BB Camps, The Battalion and the newly restarted 1^st Denholm company.