A WORCESTER man had a lump in his throat when he read a postcard from his mother for the first time.

Simon Boaz had spotted a photo of his mother in your Worcester News among items featured last Wednesday when we asked who owned photos found in a piece of furniture.

After he called your Worcester News, we handed him a bag full of old photographs and postcards featuring many of his family.

It was the first time 57-year-old Mr Boaz had seen some of the documents.

“I started reading the paper and I recognised one photo of the four brothers (his great uncles),” he said.

“It jumped out at me because I knew we had not got the original.”

He also saw a photo of his mother Margaret.

“I had a quick read and saw there was a postcard from Margaret to her father Mr Tubbs. “She doted on her father, he was everything and reading that brought a lump to my throat.”

After Margaret Tubbs died in 2004 her only son sold several items of her furniture.

Despite checking the drawers thoroughly, many documents were later found by staff at Andrew Grant.

The photographs and letters were handed to your Worcester News in a bid to trace the owners.

Within the salvaged documents there are photographs of his great uncles and his father Robert Boaz along with many postcards.

Mrs Tubbs was orphaned when she was 17 years old and then joined the RAF. She served during the Second World War before meeting her future husband in 1946.

The pair moved to Worcester, where Mr Boaz had grown up, later married and had one son.

They lived in Hallow, near Worcester, for 30 years, and Mr Boaz set up a business as a blacksmith in Lower Broadheath while his wife worked at the Berrow’s Journal for many years.

Sitting at his home in Morton Road, Fernhill Heath, West Mercia policeman Mr Boaz now wants to find out more about his mother’s life.

“It is a mystery in some ways, I know about the war time, but I want to find out more about my mum.”