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THE HOOK OF LOVE
Birmingham Mail
|July 02, 2025
FISHERWOMAN CATCHES TREASURE TROVE OF OLD LETTERS
A MUM who was magnet fishing in a Birmingham canal was stunned to pull out a treasure trove of 60-year-old love letters.
Shirley Elmore was scouring the Grand Union Canal with her son when she found a bundle of letters dating from 1962.
Although only a quarter of the 32 letters were still legible, Shirley unpacked a series of messages from a Nottingham man, identified as Arch, to a woman.
The letters sent between February and March 1962 were addressed to a Janet Millington in Glen View Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
This story is from the July 02, 2025 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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