LONG lost photos taken by a Croft couple half a lifetime ago have been returned to them thanks to an extraordinary turn of events.
Croft Parish Council was contacted out of the blue by a photography collector from Barcelona who had developed a roll of film that had been left in a camera for almost 40 years.
Salvador Busquets wanted to return the unseen photos from 1982 – that had ended up travelling 1,000 miles to Spain when he bought some old rolls of film over the internet – to their original owner.
So using remarkable detective skills, he was able to work out that a number of the pictures had been taken at Croft Carnival and asked the council for help.