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Photo Books - Alloway Made in Britain logo

Explore and buy nostalgic books about the Alloway area

Explore and buy from a wide range of local books around Alloway that feature Frith black and white photographs, recipes, local facts, trivia, history and many more enticing subjects. Most feature a hand-coloured cover image, cleverly crafted by our designers which bring an old scene back to life. Spend an age comparing today with how this area used to look and perhaps bring back some memories at the same time. Available in paperback, optionally hardback and most titles can have your own inscription added for FREE. Some titles are even available in large print.

These local history books make great gifts for birthdays, Christmas or why not buy one today to start building your own collection to fill your bookshelves!

Book of Ayr - A History and Celebration
Ayr - A History and Celebration
Image Quality: These images are intended as a guide to the content of a photo, NOT the quality. You may order any image from our website confident that we will check & optimise it (tonally adjust, remove scratches etc) before we make your prints. If there are technical reasons why an image cannot be printed to the high standards we set will notify you in advance and give you the option to cancel, or select another image. Please Note: This does not apply to any material marked as Reference Only

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Not sure what to do or how to buy a photo or map?

1. Click or tap a photo or map to view a larger version.

2. You will then see a range of products available for this image alongside the larger print, where you have several options:

Prints: You will then see a large blue button which will enable you to choose any of our print options available for this image - framed, mounted or just a print on its own. Details of prices, sizes and other specifications will also be shown on the next page.

Other Products: Simply click on the relevant illustration for further details

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Genealogy & Research Images

Why Reference Prints? All 300,000 photographs in The Frith Collection have been scanned, but as the photos were taken over a 110 year period on a wide range of glass & film negatives, using different photographic processes, every image has to be checked and optimised, before we make a print for a customer. This process can take from 15 minutes to several hours, depending on the condition of the original that we scanned. In order to offer a worthwhile selection of photos for each town, our website has traditionally displayed a mix of fully optimised photos with some that have been checked and tonally adjusted, but still require further work to bring them to the standard our products are known for.

Despite this work over the last 20 years, more than 60,000 scans have still not been individually checked and therefore not shown on our website. Some of these may prove to be damaged, faded, or not of sufficient quality to ever be offered in our full product range. However, since the number of Genealogists and Local Historians using our website is growing all the time, with effect September 2021 we will display the unchecked images marked as "Reference Only". Until they are checked and optimised these photos will only be available on the website for on-line research, or available to order as 6" x 4” Reference Prints sold as seen, with no warranty. Over the next few years as these photos are checked, those that meet our essential quality requirements will gradually be optimised and added to our main selection.