Alford Image Library

This site is now hosted and managed by Alford Heritage Museum although it was created by Jim Talbot nearly 20 years ago as an important link to the area's past. The photos on the site were in some cases lent to be scanned by their owners who were often decendents of the people in the pictures, others are from the Alford Heritage Museum collection, we hope you enjoy this unique window into the past of the Alford area. Please contact the museum by email if you have any questions about the site. Please note that, as we are a volunteer run organisation, we are unable to undertake any genealogical or historical research on your behalf but we hope that you find the images of interest. Further details about the museum and its opening hours can be found on our web site.

There is to be a Lawson Clan Gathering on the 27th/28th March in Alford to coincide with the renovation and operation of Postie Lawson's Craigevar Express at the Grampian Transport Museum. Further details can be obtained from Bill Lawson (whose email address can be found amongst "Contributors" and associated with comments connected to Lawson related photographs).

On Saturday 26th September 2009, Aberdeenshire Council are sponsoring free entry to the museum and a whole host of events, hopefully to include an opportunity to view some of the old photographs from this website stored digitally, a chance to research your ancestors with the help of Aberdeenshire Registry Officials, James Gordon to talk about the railway in Alford, bothy ballads and fiddle tunes in the chaumer and lots more to be announced later including a farmers' market. Follow the links from the links page on this website to the Alford Heritage Centre and Museum website for further details.

On the weekend of 29th and 30th of August 2009 there will be an opportunity for anyone with old photographs of Alford and the surrounding area to bring them along to Alford Heritage Centre and Museum and have them scanned and the details permanently recorded for storage at the Heritage Centre and for inclusion on this website. This opportunity might be particularly useful for anyone without extensive access to a computer and a scanner who has interesting and precious photographs which they are prepared to share but unwilling to let out of their sight. You can then rest assured that your precious photographs and memories will be recorded for the benefit of future generations.