A childhood street party in Tang Hall was brought back to life for a York couple when they found an old black and white photograph that had been hidden away for more than 60 years.

Frank and Ina Burkhill hold up the photograph of a Tang Hall street party taken in 1935 to celebrate King George V's silver jubilee.

Ina Burkhill, of Chapelfields, found the picture at her sister Pat's home in Scotland, but it wasn't until it was enlarged that she realised her husband, Frank was also on the picture as well as dozens of their brothers, sisters and friends.

Both Ina, 69, and Frank, 70, grew up in Tang Hall but moved away and only met later as teenagers. And neither realised they had both posed for the same picture as five-year-olds enjoying a street party in Sterne Avenue in 1935 to celebrate the silver jubilee of King George V and his 70th birthday the same year.

"When I found the photo I knew I was on there but we couldn't see anyone's faces," said Ina, whose maiden name was Soper.

But when Frank took it to his employers Harrisons Signs, Phil Alderson in the graphics department enlarged it and the picture soon became clear - one of his colleagues, Tony Robinson, even spotted his mother-in-law.

Frank found himself on the photo, sitting in the bottom right-hand corner with his mum and little sister Kath - Phil had even used computer technology to replace his legs which had been torn off in the original old, damaged photo.

Ina is standing at the front near to the centre in a white dress, wearing a crown, with another girl's hand resting on her shoulder. Numerous other brothers and sisters and friends were also spotted by the pair.

Ina said: "I can remember I had a crown on and I remember giving a bouquet to Mr Batty who had the chemist shop on Tang Hall Lane."

Frank said: "We knew we had lived in neighbouring streets, Sterne Avenue and Rockingham Avenue, but I had no idea this picture existed.

"The main thing I remember about the day was all the cakes on trestle tables down the street."

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