Photo kindles curiosity

Sylvia Woodhouse found this old photograph in a derelict house in Middlemarch. She is now looking for relatives of those pictured in the photo.

Sylvia Woodhouse's imagination has been running wild since she found an old sepia photograph among some papers and sheep in an old Middlemarch farmhouse.

The photo appears to be of a picnic or garden tea party in which the guests are well dressed, some in militaristic uniforms.

The photo may have been taken in the early 1900s but it is not known where.

She rescued the photo from a derelict farmhouse in Middlemarch about 15 years ago.

"It had no doors, no windows and no roof. And there were sheep living in there."

Now, her curiosity has got the better of her.

She is trying to track down descendants of the people in the photograph so she can give them the photo, find out where and when it was taken, and whom it shows.