The vast archive of a Moray photographer has gone on public display for the first time.
Digby Mills was well known in Forres for running the town’s cinema and for capturing life in the town in pictures.
Now his shots have been included in a collection of more than 1,000 photos depicting what the area looked like throughout the 20th Century.
The Forres Heritage Trust has scoured through negatives in order to pick the best to be enlarged for the exhibition that stretches from the 1900s to the 1960s.
Volunteer Franny Duncan explained Mr Mills’s collection provided a comprehensive look through at the area’s past, up until his death in 1964.
He said: “Digby was the town’s photographer so he took pictures of everything – school photos, fairs, church groups and buildings, you name it.
“When he died his collection got passed to his family and we recently started to go through it all.
“We’ve taken the negatives and blown them up to A4, a lot of them will never have been seen like that before.”
The most fascinating images have been chosen to hang on the wall while packed folders contain hundreds of other categorised memories.
A special focus has been shone on the town’s railway heritage to mark the end of the line for the current train station later this year ahead of a new one opening.
Mr Duncan added: “There’s a lot of buildings in the photographs that are no longer there. We want it to be a walk down memory lane for people to see familiar places, faces and maybe even their own face.
“The next big change in the town is going to be a new railway station so we thought it would be interesting to show pictures of what it has looked in the past.”
The exhibition runs at the Tolbooth in Forres until Saturday from 10am to 4pm each day. Entry £1.
