More than 75 years after they were first sent, three postcards addressed to two Durham School pupils have been reunited with their family.

The postcards were discovered for sale on eBay by Old Dunelmian and archive volunteer Trevor Berkeley (S, 1956–61), who bought them for the School Archives. At the time, Trevor had little expectation that we would ever be able to trace the boys to whom they had been sent.

Remarkably, two of the cards were addressed to Ian Gray (S, 1953–56), while the third was sent to his brother, Frank Gray (S, 1951–56), who later became the School's Honorary Archivist.

Ian believes the postcards were sent in 1950 by Lily Robinson, a neighbour of the Gray family in Corbridge. How they came to be offered for sale online, and where they have been during the intervening decades, remains a mystery.

It has been a real pleasure to reunite Ian with these wonderful reminders of his schooldays and to bring the three postcards back together after so many years.

Our thanks to Trevor for spotting and preserving this special piece of Durham School history, and to Ian and the wider Gray family for allowing us to share the story.