Lost family photo turns up after 40 years - on a birthday card

As she hunted for a birthday card for a family friend, Charlotte Robertson was focused only on finding the most suitable greeting.

But as she scoured the racks in the shop with her mother, the 16-year-old student found her attention drawn to one particular image.



Then the teenager realised she was staring at a picture on a card of her own father, Edward - taken more than 40 years ago he was just three.

The picture was taken in 1964 in the back garden of Mr Robertson's childhood home in Edgbaston, Birmingham, by a local professional photographer, John Doidge.

The image only surfaced when Mr Doidge died, and card publishers Statics bought the copyright to the shot from his widow, Anne.