About the Author

Alan Barron is a retired bank manager who was born and bred in Nairn. Soon after his return to Nairn seventeen years ago, Alan was invited to become director of Nairn Museum. Since then, he has brought his love of the town's history to the fore by helping to raise funds for the museum by publishing some illustrated books using the museum archive of some 6,800 digitised photographs. He has had a keen interest in local history since his early teens, and has written a number of previous titles on the local area, including Old Nairn and The Fishertown Walk.