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TRAIN driver Bernard Rolfe couldn't believe his eyes when he saw a copy of last Friday's Lynn News.
It's not every day you are confronted by a picture of yourself at seven months old – particularly when you are approaching your 61st birthday.
The photo was handed in to the Lynn News after it was found on St James Street in the town – but how it ever got there remains a mystery.
Mr Rolfe, of Emneth, said he had a copy of it, as does his mum Audrey.
But she has lived in the same house in Emneth since 1948 and neither of them can work out how the picture ended up on a Lynn street.
He said: "I am going to get some stick over this.
"I was seven months old in the photo and we lived in the old workhouse in Emneth.
"My mum said it was definitely me and she has the picture as well."
Mr Rolfe is married to Jill and they have a daughter Sara.
He drives the train from Lynn to Kings Cross for First Capital Connect and admitted to the odd "wind-up" on his colleagues.
"I expect they'll get their own back now," he said.
Meanwhile Jean Foulsham got a similar shock when she saw her wedding photograph from 1949 on the same page.
The picture shows Mrs Foulsham and husband Edward outside a West Norfolk church following their wedding.
It was found in a 1930s cook book at the Oxfam shop in Lynn's High Street and was passed on to the newspaper.
"I was shocked," said Mrs Foulsham, who now lives in Gaywood.
"I have got photos at home just like it, but I have never taken any cookery books to the Oxfam shop and neither have my daughters."
The wedding took place on a hot July day and the reception was held at a local school and Mrs Foulsham's four sisters were bridesmaids and her brother was the page boy.
"It was just after the war and money was a bit short," she said. "There was none of this expense that people have now."
Reader Gwen Russell also contacted the Lynn News after spotting the wedding photograph.
Mrs Russell, (55) of West Winch, recognised the shot of her former neighbours, the Foulshams.
"I used to live near them in East Winch and was friendly with their daughters," she said. "I always look at the old pictures in the Lynn News and this time I thought 'I know those faces'."
Mrs Russell went to East Winch Primary School with the couple's three daughters Christine, Noreen and Davina.
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