Memories of shipyards, ferries and riverside life are set to be shared in a special gathering this week.
An oral history event will take place on November 13 at 2pm at the Speirs Centre in Alloa.
The event aims to capture first-hand accounts of life along the town’s waterfront during the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
Organiser Chris Davies, whose McLeod family operated the Alloa ferry for many decades, hopes the event will help preserve stories that might otherwise be lost.
He said: “I don’t know who will turn up, but if people lived in Forth Street, drank at the Mar Inn, worked at the glassworks or at McLeod’s shipyard, it would be really good to hear from them.
“I was eight years old when I remember seeing Alloa’s 18th-century dry dock left abandoned, full of mud and with the gates left open. I’m 71 now.
“Perhaps I’ll be the youngest person present on Thursday.”
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