A rediscovered film unveils a 1948 celebration in Chipping Sodbury, but two men in the picture remain a mystery.
Oliver took it to Salisbury Photo Centre. Ian Scott, the manager, developed it. The film showed old British scenes.
It had a crowd and two men on a bridge. Online research suggested a location. The crowd was outside a hotel. It was The Portcullis in Chipping Sodbury. Many people were well-dressed in the photos.
Classic cars lined up near the hotel’s entrance. What looked like a TV crew filmed the scene. Online theories guessed at celebrities or royalty. A local event solved the mystery.
The Good family had quadruplets in 1948. They lived in Westerleigh near Chipping Sodbury. The town welcomed them back after the birth. This explained the crowd in the photo.
Barnes felt relieved about solving it. He worried about exposing the old film. The camera was very old, about 100 years. He didn’t expect the film to work.
Barnes likes the thrill of film photos. He thinks they feel different from digital images. Scott enjoyed seeing the young man’s enthusiasm. He was happy the film survived untouched. Nobody opened the camera for 70 years.
One mystery got solved because of the family. However, the two men still remain unknown. Scott asks for help identifying them. He wants to know the photo’s location.