A charity shop purchase has sparked off a puzzle that readers of The Northern Echo may be able to solve.

Sylvia Elliott was shopping in Northallerton when she bought an Instamatic camera shop from one of the town's many charity shops.

But on her return home to Darlington, she discovered that it still contained a film which, when developed, had four pictures on it.

Now she is hoping someone recognises the woman or the child in the picture so that she can pass them on to their rightful owners.

"There is also a photo of the child, which is very beautiful, and the other two are of a large black dog," said Sylvia.

"They really are very nice photographs and somebody may wish to have them."

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