New information has come to light regarding the 'unknown album' which was discovered during a refurbishment of the newspaper offices. Please click on the link for the original story.

It would appear that it belonged to the Goss family, who lived at 9 Elm Road, Biggleswade for many years.

Liz Mayston told us that the little boy in the photo (published in Memory Lane on June 13, 2008) is Phillip Goss.

At the time the photograph was taken he was at Holmemead School as reader Steven Rook recognised the uniform.

Liz first knew Phillip when the family lived at Bensens Row, which ran from Shortmead Street to Chapel Fields by Keens Shay Keens. They subsequently moved to Elm Road.

"Phillip was a quiet lad with auburn hair, and you would always see him with his mother," recalled Liz.

"He worked off the Market Square until he was made redundant and lived with her until she died."

Sadly Phillip also passed away several years ago but Liz says he would have been 61 if he had been alive today, making the photographs approximately 50 years old.

Emma Bryant visited the offices to say that the picture taken in the garden shows Phillip, who was an only child, with his mother Gertrude and father Sid Goss.

She didn't know who the blonde toddler in the photograph was, nor the bespectacled man in the background but this was possibly Gertrude's brother who apparently visited often.

Gertrude Goss cleaned for the Bryant family and interestingly Emma's sister Debbie, now 39, became something of an adoptive grandchild for widow Gert in her later years.

Phillip, who was friends with Emma and Debbie's father, didn't marry or have children of his own so Debbie would often be invited to stay and holiday with the pair from when she was five years old up until the age of 13 when Gert died.

She even had her own bedroom at the Goss home. "It was painted lilac," she recalled.

Debbie is still vaguely in touch with a sister-in-law who lives in Bournemouth.

Mrs Bryant (no relation to Emma and Debbie), who still lives in Elm Road, remembers the family well and attended Phillip's funeral.

She believes Phillip's father Sid was a mechanic at Bondor and that at one time Phillip worked at the NAAFI offices in Biggleswade.

Mrs Bryant recalled a cousin named Sid Garner who used to live in Windermere Drive, Biggleswade. His wife also attended Phillip's funeral.

If you are still in touch with members or descendants of the Goss family, please contact Catherine Rose at Memory Lane.

This story appeared in Memory Lane on June 27, 2008.