A FORMER Dollar resident has put together a book full of historical pictures of the main road running through the town.

Guthrie Hutton lived in the Wee County until he was 10 years old, but has remained fascinated by the A91 which connects the Hillfoots villages.

Now, the 82-year-old author has spent four years collecting pictures of the road in its formation through to the present day.

He has compiled these images into a book, entitled Along the Old A91 – The Stirling to St Andrew’s Road, to showcase what he has learned.

Guthrie spoke to the Advertiser to discuss his appreciation of the A91 and how the idea came about.

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“They are all pictures that I’ve been gathering for a while now,” Guthrie said. “I grew up in Dollar beside the A91.

“We left Dollar and emigrated to Australia in 1954 and it’s something that is in my blood, It’s always been part of my life.

“I like the road, I love driving up and down on that road, the A91 is a really nostalgic trip for me.

“I started to put it together in the Covid lockdown but I didn’t quite have enough pictures so it took a wee bit longer to come to fruition.”

Guthrie and his family moved away from Clacks when he was 10 years old, but the A91 would remain a big part of his life.

He moved back to Scotland as an adult and now lives in Cupar in the north of Fife, which the A91 runs through the middle of on its way to St Andrews.

Guthrie added: “We quite often drive from Cupar to Stirling simply to drive along the Hillfoots because we love the Ochills and going through the wee villages.

“In researching all of this, I learned that it was a toll road and they decided not to improve the old road, but to build a new road.

“All the villages used to cluster along the old road and almost physically moved south to run along the new road that we know today."

Along the Old A91 can be purchased from Amazon.