LANDLADY Carol Williams has found some strange items during her 10 years working at the Queen’s Head pub in Wokingham.
From false teeth to train tickets, Carol is rarely surprised at what customers leave behind especially after a weekend or New Year celebrations.
But recently, she came across an unusual item abandoned on a shelf in the town centre pub and now hopes she can reunite it with the owner.
While recently dusting the bar area, Carol discovered an old drivers licence complete with a name and address as well as the year in which it was issued – 1967.
“It looks like a post war one before the pink and then green drivers licence which many of us had before the new plastic ones were issued,” she explained.
“It was just sitting on a shelf as if someone had put it down for a minute and had forgotten to pick it up again. Maybe someone dropped the licence and another person found it and left it there thinking the owner would come back to claim it.
“How this old licence found itself on a shelf in the pub is a mystery, but what I want to do now is try and reunite it with its rightful owner.”
The name on the licence is Alan C. Smith with an address and postcode for Leicestershire.
In the 1960s, drivers licences came in the form of a little red book with a Royal crown on the cover. They contained information about the driver, a stamp and some pages taken from the Highway Code.
Carol added the one she found was clean and in remarkable shape considering it is more than 50 years old.
“It looks like someone has taken good care of it or maybe kept it in a box,” she explained.
“It’s not creased or damaged or has torn pages. I don’t imagine it is valuable in monetary terms but I reckon it has sentimental value for someone. I wonder if it belonged to the owners’ father or grandfather and they are now wondering how and where they lost it.
“No one has come forward to claim it so I am now considering putting it on social media in the hope someone recognises the person named on it.”
If you can help Carol reunite the item with its rightful owner call her at the Queen’s Head or get in touch with Wokingham Today.
