"WE WILL be able to give the photos to our children and grandchildren for them to treasure."
A family were delighted when they were reunited with missing photographs, discovered by chance hidden in a chair.
As reported, the chair was bought for £5 by Karen and Patrick Hotson at an auction.
When the couple discovered the pictures hidden away, they contacted the Grimsby Telegraph to trace the family of the people on them – Daisy Winfarrah and her daughter, Joan.
It took less than a day to find them, and the large collection of photographic memories were handed to their rightful owners... and the story behind them unfolded.
Daisy had kept cards and newspaper cuttings from 1977, as well as the large collection of photographic slides.
She was the former post lady from Ashby-cum-Fenby and had treasured the mementos from a bygone era.
She died about 25 years ago and her daughter, Joan, who died about two years ago, kept family photos.
Joan even featured in the Grimsby Telegraph when she lost her much-loved parrot three years ago from her home in Humberston. Raymond Winfarrah, of Pelham Avenue, Scartho, is Joan's cousin, and remembered her as a keen photographer.
"She was always taking photos," he said.
"We are very grateful to the couple who found them in the chair and to the Grimsby Telegraph from tracing the family."
Joan's ex-husband Rodney Armstrong, 69, of Eperstone Park, Humberston, immediately recognised himself in the wedding line-up published in the paper.
They married at Welholme Methodist Chapel in 1975, and remained friends with the family when they divorced ten years later.
Ann Ballans also identified one of the women photographed at a holiday resort in the 1970s. Relatives think the photo was taken in Bournemouth, where Joan loved to visit.
And the woman on the right of the photo was named as the late Joan Booth, formerly of Humberston Road, Grimsby.
Ann was her carer for 30 years until she died about seven years ago.
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