LOST photos of a seventies wedding which took place near Stroud have been found in an old camera and developed.

Romanian photographer Alex Galmeanu found the photos when he bought a camera online and found an undeveloped Kodacolor roll-film inside.

Mr Galmeanu, a fashion photographer, was able to develop ten black and white photos of the wedding which he believed took place in Scotland.

But after an appeal on BBC Scotland, Christine Read, the general manager of the Burleigh Court Hotel, came forward and identified the pictures as having taken place at the hotel near Stroud.

"As soon as I saw the first picture with the trees I knew," she told BBC Scotland.

"And then the second photo has the lodge at the end of our drive."

Mr Galmeanu believes the wedding took place between 1973 and 1974 after researching one of the cars shown in one of the photos.

"Talking about the cars, one of them, that one already wedding decorated, is an Austin Maxi, made in England between 1969 and 1981," he wrote in his blog.

"This particular one, it seems it was made in the first part of the interval, judging by the mirrors position.

"I searched online for the plate number, and I discovered that car was actually first registered in Edinburgh, somewhere between August 1973 and July 1974."

The film, produced by Kodak, also indicates that the wedding took place between 1973 and 1974.

Mr Galmeanu bought the camera from an online seller in Birmingham and has learned that it was shipped from Southam, Warwickshire, where it was kept by a collector for years but the photos were never discovered.

"This is a great experience for a photographer like me considering the fact that I was able to process a roll film exposed five years before my birth," said Mr Galmeanu.

"We achieve the technical performance of processing a 43 years old negative and to recover images which not even those pictured in the photos had been able to see them.

"Decades surviving images inside a photographic camera that hasn’t been opened all this time.

"A happy end will complete this beautiful story.

"Your help is needed to share this to all your British friends.

"Who knows, maybe someone will hopefully recognise his/ her family, and I’ll have the opportunity to return these images to those entitled to receive them."

If you can identify anyone in the photos please email scb@stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk