Woman hopes to reunite 1970s photo album with owner

A woman who found a family photo album from the 1970s in a bundle of secondhand items is trying to trace its owners.

Carly Young and her partner found the album - containing wedding and baby pictures - among items bought online from a clearance firm selling belongings from a house in Stoke-on-Trent.

“We knew we couldn't get rid of it - it was too sentimental for someone out there,” said Ms Young, from Nuneaton in Warwickshire.

The album contains an order of service leaflet and photos, showing the wedding of a couple called Janet and Peter at St Mary's Church in Wistaston, Cheshire, on 15 September 1979.

The album also contains baby photos and a picture of a red-haired girl playing with a Christmas cracker.

“I've got two little ones and, if I had these kinds of pictures of them, I'd want them forever,” Ms Young, a mother of two, told BBC Midlands Today.

The couple bought the bundle two years ago but they only spotted the album recently, while doing a spring clear-out.

Because of the time passed, Ms Young could no longer find the details of the company that sold her the bundle.

She posted on a Facebook group, external for Stoke residents earlier this month, to ask for help with finding the album’s owner, and her post has been shared almost 250 times.

The album also contains a photo of three men with the caption "Three Musketeers D’Artagan Rolls Royce", as well as pictures of a dog called Petra and its kennel club registration card.

Ms Young hopes someone from the family will contact them.

“I think there's a good chance that Janet may have passed, but there's a lot of people in this [album] that may still be with us,” she said.

“Maybe the little girl that's in the picture might recognise herself.”

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