Couple reunited with lost wedding film after 57 years

A hubby and woman successful Australia person been reunited with the agelong mislaid footage of their wedding successful Scotland aft it was recovered by accidental 57 years later.

Aileen and Bill Turnbull got joined successful Aberdeen successful 1967 and aboriginal emigrated - but without the film.

The footage was recovered erstwhile an aged cine movie was transferred onto DVD for a antheral successful Aberdeen. He posted an representation from it connected societal media, and the mates successful Brisbane aboriginal recognised themselves.

After watching the movie again - which she had lone seen erstwhile earlier - Mrs Turnbull told BBC Scotland News it was an "absolutely amazing" feeling.

The mates joined astatine Mastrick Church successful Aberdeen successful August 1967.

They were filmed leaving the religion connected instrumentality borrowed from a enactment colleague.

They past borrowed a projector to ticker it but returned it without realising the movie was inactive with it, and were incapable to enactment retired wherever it had gone.

They emigrated to Australia successful 1981, wherever they are present grandparents, some aged 77.

Fast guardant to April this year, and backmost successful Aberdeen Terry Cheyne was getting aged cine footage helium had filmed transferred onto DVD.

When helium watched it backmost determination was immoderate wedding footage helium knew thing about.

Mr Cheyne posted a inactive image, taken from the signaling of the blessed couple, connected a Facebook leafage but it was astir six months earlier a shocked Mrs Turnbull stumbled crossed the picture.

"It was perfectly amazing, I couldn't judge it," Mrs Turnbull told BBC Scotland News.

"I was looking done Facebook, and up came this wedding photograph. My hubby was sitting here, I turned to him and I said 'there's our wedding photograph'.

"I messaged Terry and it conscionable grew from there. His uncle was the feline we'd borrowed the projector from to spot the movie aft the wedding, helium worked with my husband.

"We gave backmost the projector, and unbeknown to america that movie was inactive successful the projector. We've lone recovered that retired now.

"We looked astatine it once, aft that we couldn't find it and didn't cognize what happened to it. It indispensable person got mixed up with thing and it's lone surfaced now. Then Terry decided to effort and hint this couple."

Mr Cheyne was capable to nonstop them a nexus truthful they could ticker the footage - and it brought backmost immoderate peculiar memories.

"It conscionable seems unusual for maine to spot my parent and my father, not conscionable successful a photograph but determination really moving and walking," Mrs Turnbull explained.

"And my husband, helium saw his grandma and his grandfather, who was 100 erstwhile helium died.

"I watched it again today, I could inactive recognise everybody.

"To look backmost and spot these radical was conscionable perfectly astonishing - I inactive can't judge it really.

"I was conscionable saying to my neighbours, we've got our wedding album, and the bulk of radical successful that person passed away. So seeing the movie was conscionable surreal. A fewer of them are inactive with us."

She said getting portion of their wedding filmed - the footage lasts nether 3 minutes - was "probably precise unusual" astatine the time.

"Terry sent maine the nexus truthful we could spot it here, it was conscionable truthful surreal."

Mr Cheyne said helium utilized to beryllium successful the Royal Navy and had tons of reels of his ain cine footage.

"When I came location I gave it to my uncle, helium kept them harmless for me," helium said.

"One time helium decided helium was moving location truthful I recovered my films. I kept them successful my loft for a agelong time. And past I decided I would transportation them onto DVD, due to the fact that I didn't person a projector.

"The archetypal movie that was connected the DVD was a mysterious chartless movie to me. It was intelligibly a wedding, successful Mastrick Church. I watched it galore times, I didn't cognize anybody."

He posted a representation connected a Facebook page, but it was erstwhile idiosyncratic shared it connected different leafage that Mrs Turnbull spotted it.

"I waited astir six months, and past Aileen said 'that's us'," helium said.

"When she told maine she had lone adjacent seen it erstwhile successful 57 years it was truly a joyful moment."

He hopes to really conscionable the mates if they are capable to marque it implicit to Aberdeen connected holiday.

"I've conscionable been gladsome to assistance Aileen and Bill," Mr Cheyne said. "They are delighted 57 years later. A precise blessed ending."