The women who saved the rugby world cup

For a time in 1994, these women became the rock stars of the rugby world.

Kim Littlejohn says women’s rugby had visibility, it was on the telly, and it encouraged more and more women to get involved throughout Scotland.

Women’s rugby clubs sprung up from the borders to the islands.

Going into her bag she pulls out, not a rugby top, but a Black Watch tartan skirt.

“This was part of our post match uniform” she says.

“Again it was donated to us, and the photos we’ve got, all in our matching Black Watch uniforms, celebrating everything about that world championships, it was so good, it was an opportunity we had to take, we learned from it and it was a great experience for us, and how happy we were.”