STUNNED householders discovered wartime letters, photographs and postcards lying in their attic and now want to return them to the writer's family.

Daniel Briggs and wife Lisa were clearing out the loft at their home in Berechurch Hall Road, Colchester, when they were making way for Colchester Council engineers to install insulation.

But during the big sort-out, they discovered the small stack of valuables which are roughly a century old gathering dust in the corner.

The letter is addressed to a Mr and Mrs Robinson and signed off by a man called Bob who is seemingly away fighting the Germans in the First World War and sent to an address in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.

In it he described the food he is eating, sunny weather and asks for supplies to be posted out to him.

It says: "I should love to have some more radishes and cucumbers later on. "Do not send any more biscuits as we are comfortable at present.

"The weather has been glorious and I swam in the lake with Vic."

After asking to send a holdall he apologised for always asking for things and insisted he wanted to return home but wanted to prevail in the conflict first.

He added: "I am sorry to keep troubling you - I ask for something everytime.

"I shall be glad to return once again.

"I have had enough of war but Germany must go under first.

"Don't forget cigarettes if you don't mind."

As well as the letter there is a postcard date from 1935 from a day out in Walton and other picture negatives which the couple believe to be related.

Mr Briggs, 38, said he was determined to find the family of the letter's sender and reunite them.

He said: "It is a brilliant find and I love it.

"If I could return them it would be absolutely amazing.

"It is a council property which we believe was built in the 1950s.

"It must have been someone who had lived here who owned them and have been left behind.

"I was clearing out the loft when I came across them and had never seen them before."

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