AN appeal in Memories for information about a photograph of a couple relaxing on a beach at the seaside has had a great success.

It was submitted to Memories by Angela Pogson of Huddersfield. She had mysteriously received it in a package from Royal Mail which contained a letter written by her.

The letter had been returned to her because the envelope had inadvertently been opened during transit. Included in the package were a number of photographs, including the one shown, and she has been trying to return them to the owner.

Her previous efforts to track him or her down have gone unrewarded for many months. Information in the package led her to believe there was a Barnsley connection and shortly after the photograph appeared in the Chronicle's Memories column this was confirmed.

Angela was delighted when we told her that the couple on the photograph had been identified. Maureen Firth (nee Sunderland) had seen it and immediately recognised it as being of her mother and father, Leonard and Nellie Sunderland who lived in Wombwell Lane, Stairfoot.

Leonard was caretaker at an Athersley infant school and Nellie also worked at the same school. "My mother and dad spent most of their holidays at Scarborough and I am sure that the photograph would have been taken there.

"I was thrilled to see it and I am quite amazed at the way it has turned up."

Her brother Harry, however, was able to throw some light on how the photograph might have ended up in the opened envelope.

"I borrowed some family photos from my sister who lives in Todmorden. I scanned them and then posted them back to her but she cannot ever remember receiving them."

Harry believes the photograph was taken in 1947.