OLD photos, letters and contracts are just some of the documents found inside a piece of furniture.
The owners or relatives are now being asked to come forward and claim their family’s history.
There are postcards written to a Mrs Salmon at Rowlands, the Isle of Wight, and a Daisy Luffman, East Standen Farm, near Newport.
A girl called Margaret has sent her father Mr Tubbs a birthday card, and there is a letter to Margaret Tubbs addressed 8, Hill View Terrace, Newport, Isle of Wight.
Photographs include a family portrait taken outside Bell End in Bellbroughton; the family of David Roberts and Annie Stevenson taken outside Chadwick Manor, near Bromsgrove; and a house called Heath Grange in Broadheath.
Other documents include a contract for John Rookley to be an apprentice to William Curtis Rowland and another for William Rowland to be a mason’s apprentice to Samuel Shepton.
A certificate marking the appointment of James Stevenson as a second sieutenant in the RAF in November 1918 is also among the papers found.
They were found in a piece of furniture which was being sold at an Andrew Grant sale more than a year ago.
If they belong to you, please contact Lucy Tatchell at your Worcester News on 01905 742253 or e-mail lt@ worcesternews.co.uk.
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