Publisher's Synopsis
Comprising several parishes, the Howe of Alford includes Alford, Keig, Tough, Tullynessie and Forbes as well as various landed estates and big houses. Essentially agricultural more than anything else these villages also had smiths, bakers tailors and other small shops and traders.m The selection of photographs in this collection very much reflects this and the gentle pace of village and rural life before the motor car, but not the train. Page 10 has a super photo of Alford station packed with life - two locomotives, buses, lorries and most unusually a view of turntable. The book is packed with images of shops, village life, social history and transport.
