Chad reported last week how a set of passport pictures taken on holiday in Skegness in 1974 had been found by Lisa Culleton at Sutton Leisure Centre car park on 17th August.

But on Thursday, 49-year-old Julie Shore came forward to collect the photographs which she had been carrying in her bag that day.

She said: "I had taken them to work a couple of weeks ago because we were all showing each other old pictures.

"I had put them in the front pocket of my bag where I usually keep my keys and I must have dropped them when I went to pick my son up from his class a couple of weeks ago.

"I did not even notice I had dropped them until my friend Steph phoned me to say that my picture was in the paper."

And it is only by a strange coincidence that they were returned to their rightful owner.

Added Julie: "I did not grow up here – I lived in Sheffield until 1987, so no-one in the area would recognise me in that picture apart from Steph who I actually met on that same holiday to Skegness.

"She lived there until the early 1980s and we became pen-pals after that. She then moved to Mansfield while I moved to Sutton, so it was a real coincidence that she saw it."

Julie has contacted Lisa who found the pictures and the pair are due to meet up in the next week.

"I also want to thank Lisa for putting the appeal in the paper," she said.