John and Margaret Lawes feared that their valuable wedding ceremony photograph had gone perpetually after they by accident donated it to a charity store.
The sepia photograph exhibits the blissful couple standing by their chauffeur-driven automotive at their wedding ceremony in 1965.
It vanished when 83-year-old John and 80-year-old Margaret moved home a number of years in the past. The wedded pair feared the worst – till a relative noticed their acquainted faces on a Fb attraction.
The Northampton couple have now been reunited with the photograph – simply days earlier than their 57th wedding ceremony anniversary on August 5.
(Image: Esther Greenwood / SWNS)
Their eldest daughter Esther Greenwood, 55, was amazed to see this photograph for the primary time.
She provides: ‘They give the impression of being so dapper and so blissful collectively.’
Since John was at all times giving issues to charities, he has no thought how the photograph ended up there.
The household have a concept, although.
Esther explains: ‘We predict the image someway slipped contained in the pages of a e book after which dad will need to have taken it to the charity store.
‘They took a load of issues to the charity store after they moved right into a bungalow three years in the past so it will need to have been misplaced then.’
It wound up on the RSPCA’s new Retro Rooms and Boutique store in Wellingborough, Northants, the place – three years later – assistant supervisor Viktoria Brice stumbled throughout it whereas sorting via donated gadgets.
(Image: Esther Greenwood / SWNS)
She posted the image to Fb, hoping for the most effective.
‘In my coronary heart I felt this photograph shouldn’t be in a charity store, and I questioned if I might discover the house owners – after which the magic occurred,’ she says.
‘Inside a day it had been recognised.’
Esther’s aunt then noticed it on Fb, because the RSPCA had been interesting for folks to come back ahead in the event that they knew the couple so they may reunite them with it.
‘After we claimed it, the RSPCA posted it again to mum and pop,’ Esther says, ‘and it’s arrived simply in time for his or her anniversary, which is gorgeous timing.’
The photograph was taken virtually precisely 57 years in the past, on August 5, 1965, outdoors the Queensgrove Methodist Church in Northampton the place the couple tied the knot.
Within the image, John and Margaret are touching their heads collectively: a romantic gesture they nonetheless do to at the present time.
Again then, John was a instructor and Margaret was a nurse. They took their expertise to Nigeria as missionaries throughout the peak of the civil struggle in 1967, with John instructing at a college and Margaret working in a hospital.
They went on to have 4 youngsters and eight grandchildren.
John says they ‘can’t thank Viktoria sufficient for locating our photograph.’
He provides: ‘We’re each thrilled to be reunited with the image and it’s beautiful to reminisce about our very special occasion.’
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