Fairy photos winging their way to auction

YOUR WEEKLY ROUND-UP OF THE REGION'S LEADING AUCTIONEERS

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A COMPLETE set of Cottingley Fairies photographs that lay unrecognised in an old bureau drawer for almost a hundred years is going under the hammer in an auction in North Lincolnshire today.

The photographs came from members of a Devon farming family who only realised what a rarity they had when they saw Cottingley memorabilia featured on an Antiques Roadshow television programme.

Their set includes the ghostly fifth and final shot, the photograph that one of the Yorkshire schoolgirl hoaxers continued to claim captured real fairies, even after the girls admitted that they had faked the rest.