Family reunited with lost wedding pictures from 1957

Wendy Carroll, of Port Seton, posted the photographs on social media after her husband Brian came across an album while working in the attic of their daughter Chloe’s home on Musselburgh’s Delta Road, which she moved to one-and-a-half years ago.

Wendy said: “I love old photos so he brought it home for me to look at.

“When I saw them, they were gorgeous and just full of memories.”

She decided to track down the family but, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, her search was put on hold until recently, when the photos were uploaded to social media.

Wendy said the response was “amazing” and, within half an hour, someone recognised the wedding party.

The photos were of the marriage of Musselburgh woman Una McCann and Tommy Brodie (pictured below), from Armadale, on June 1, 1957, at Our Lady of Loretto and St Michael Church, Musselburgh.

Tommy was in the RAF, stationed in Ayr, and Una and her friend went on holiday to Ayr, where she met him at the Bobby Jones dance hall.

Their only child, Monica Warnock (pictured below), a Wallyford resident, collected the album from Wendy the next day.

Wendy said: “I was so happy to return it to where it belonged.”

Mum-of-three Monica, who has four grandchildren, was delighted to have the album back, saying her parents divorced and both remarried.

She said that her half-brother Russell Brodie, who lives with his wife Jenni in Edinburgh, had never seen a photograph of his grandmother, who was in the wedding photo, standing at the groom’s side.

Monica said: “My mother gave me the album 20 years ago. My daughter Michaela Malone had the album in her house and it somehow ended up in the attic.

“She moved from Delta Road to Ormiston about three years ago and it was left in the attic by mistake.

“No one realised it was missing. Wendy’s husband was doing work in the attic when he found it.”

She added that, when the photos went on Facebook, her cousins alerted her.

Una (pictured below), a great-grandmother-of-five, now 86, lives in Edinburgh’s Craigentinny with her husband Jack. Tommy passed away in 2011.

Monica said: “I took the album to my mum and she enjoyed looking at the old photographs of her family. I will keep it safe for the family to keep through the generations.”