David, 54, is very curious after seeing what the camera had on it
A dad now has a mystery to solve after finding an undeveloped film in a camera his son got his for a present. David Winder, 54, has long has an interest in photography and was excited when he was gifted a used camera for Christmas from his son, Noah.
But when he looked closer, David, originally from Yorkshire, found an exposed, but undeveloped, film inside. Curious of what the photos were or if they would be too damaged, David send the photographs off to be developed.
Believed to have been taken in the late 70s early 80s, the dozen photos capture a family, thought to be from Merseyside, on a caravan holiday. The images were taken on a Kodak Brownie Cresta 3, made between 1960 and 1965, which David’s son bought from Etsy shop, VintageCameraWorldUK, which is based in Liverpool.
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David, who now lives in Cambridge, told the ECHO: “My son bought me a used camera from a shop in Liverpool for Christmas. I’m into old cameras and used cameras so he thought it would be a good present.
“It’s something that I’ve come back to, the used cameras. My dad was a keen photographer and I used to take photos a lot in my teens and then everything went digital.
“I opened up the camera and there was old film in there. It was a surprise – I had a film I was developing anyway so I thought it send that off at the same time.
“The film was of a caravan holiday, a family around a swing, some look like the Lake District and there’s a photo of a beach. I’m guessing the camera was from some sort of house clearance or somebody has thrown it out and not checked it.”
David said around a dozen photos have been developed from the film and he believes the lake featured within a number of the images to be Ullswater Lake in the Lake District.
With the camera coming from Liverpool, he said it may be likely the family photographed were local to Merseyside. He recently posted them to a Liverpool lost and found page on Facebook in the hopes of finding out more when one user suggested he contact the Liverpool ECHO.
David is now sharing these photos in an attempt to find the people featured in the photos and reunite them with these decades old memories. He said: “I’m of that same age.
“In the late 70s, early 80s I would have been eight or nine. As you get older, the only photos you have are the old ones from back in the day before cameras were what they are today.
“These are from 40 years ago – so you never know, we may find somebody. It would be really good to and they may be nice memories for the people.
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