By Lizzie Edmonds PUBLISHED: 07:16 EST, 5 January 2014 | UPDATED: 07:16 EST, 5 January 2014 Honoured: Margaret Rigby, 99, has been recognised as the longest serving member of the Girl Guides A 99-year-old who has served in the Girl Guides since she was 13 has been recognised as the country's longest serving member. Margaret Rigby from Chorley, Lancashire, has devoted most of her life to the group - and has just received a British Medal Empire in the New Year's Honours List for her efforts. After being a guide and a ranger in the 1920s and 30s, she continued her service after the war and was secretary and leader of various guiding groups.
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Margaret Rigby first joined the Guides eight decades ago aged 13
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Continued her 86-year service throughout the Second World War
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Mrs Rigby has mastered variety of skills such as camping and making fires
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Pensioner from Chorley, Lancashire, now serves in Trefoil Guild
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Will be eldest person to receive Empire medal in New Year's Honours list
Then and now: The @placeholder looks through a photo album of all of her adventures  at home in Chorley