A hundred year old photo album from Tremough House in Penryn which was found in a Bristol skip is to be reunited with the descendants of its original owners.

Paula Flay found the album after it had been thrown away during the conversion of The Bell pub in the suburb of Stapleton several years back, and found several clues linking it to Tremough - now part of the Penryn Campus - around 1912.

She said: "It was wet and very tatty, but with the most wonderful family photos dating from around 1912. Quite a well to do family by the look of it, and a beautiful grand house.

"Having spent 20 years doing my own family tree, and having dozens of old photos of my own ancestors, I was totally captivated by the album, and thought I must find the family and return it. How on earth it ended up at The Bell is a mystery, one which I probably will never solve."

She found one of the photographs was labelled Tremough, as well as a wedding invitation dated 1891 and addressed to Col. and Mrs Faulkner-Brown.

Paula's friend Rosie Murrell, a family historian, was able to track down the original owner of the photographs, Colonel Louis Faulkner-Brown, who came from Chester and attended Charterhouse School before joining the Royal Engineers, serving in Afghanistan at Helmand and Kandahar.

He married Frances Taylor of Dublin and the couple had two daughters Ethel and Katherine, before moving to Tremough in 1906, then to Falmouth in 1924.

Armed with this information, Paula took to Facebook, posting a collection of the pictures as well as the names of the people in them across several local groups.

Local historians here added some of their information, and as word spread, Paula managed to track down Colonel Faulkner-Brown's grandson.

Now she is hoping to travel to Cornwall and bring the photo album home.

She said: "When I found the great grandson and made contact I had palpitations I was so excited, and bursting to tell everyone who it was, but had to wait for confirmation first before spilling the beans.I am still waiting.

"Everyone on [Facebook group] Legendary Penryn History are dying to know too."

If you know any more about the history of the Faulkner-Brown's or their time at Tremough, email peter.johnstone@packetseries.co.uk