Mystery as wedding snaps turn up forty years late

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AFTER their special day, most newlyweds can't wait to get their hands on the wedding photographs.





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But one married couple may have had a 40-year delay for a glimpse of their pictures after they were mysteriously stuck in the post.

The two black and white images were recently returned to the former office of the Edinburgh-based photographer F Menzies - who took the pictures several decades ago - after failing to reach the intended recipient in Derby.

Web design and development company, Net Resources Ltd, moved into the office previously occupied by the photographer at 26 Palmerston Place, with director Sara Dodd receiving the photographs out of the blue in the post last year.

There was no note or letter accompanying the photographs, which were inside the original envelope in which they were sent.

The photographer's name and address is printed on the back of each photograph and they are thought to have been taken in Edinburgh.

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The battered envelope carries the original 5d stamp, a "Photographs - Do Not Bend" warning and is marked first class.

There are two "Return to Sender" stickers and a couple of postmarks, one illegible and the other appearing to date from June 2006.

Mrs Dodd, who sent the photographs to the Evening News this week in an attempt to trace their owner, said: "It's extraordinary. They just arrived with the daily post. I have no idea where they have been all this time.

"I was really bewildered because I saw the envelope and looked at the old stamp, but didn't recognise it. I opened it and saw these old photos and thought they had been sent to the wrong address. Then I saw the address on the back and realised they were being returned.

"They must have been taken in the Sixties or Seventies, so it's taken some 40 years for them to get back to this address.

"There was nothing else in the envelope. I assume the person they were being sent to never got them, or they moved."

Net Resources Ltd moved into the office in 2001. It was previously occupied by a chartered surveyor.

The firm moved a few doors along to number 22 Palmerston Place shortly after the photographs arrived, and as a result the pictures were lost among paperwork until recently.

Mrs Dodd said: "I found them again when I was going through the paperwork. I didn't want to throw them out because they must be someone's memories. I thought I had to do something.

"I really hope the Evening News finds somebody who knows the faces."

A spokeswoman for Royal Mail said: "It is unlikely that this item was in our system all this time. Almost certainly it was put back in a post box in February 2010."