Coach company National Express is hoping to reunite a wedding album with its rightful owner – ahead of what would be the happy couple's 51st anniversary.

The beautiful wedding album, filled with black-and-white photographs, was lost by a coach customer last year – and handed in to staff at Birmingham Coach Station.

Details of the wedding have been lovingly filled in, listing the couple – who look to be in their early twenties – to have married at a mystery St Clements Church on Saturday, August 7, 1965 supported by bridesmaids Julie and Christine and best man Derrick.

After extensive research, company staff believe the church in question is St Clements in Neyland.

Despite the best efforts of National Express staff to trace its rightful owner, the album, which names Patrica - an unusual spelling - Cavanagh and Brian Lewis as the bride and groom, has remained unclaimed.

They hope the couple may still be living in the Neyland area.

The album was lost during what would have been the couple’s Golden Anniversary year and staff in Birmingham think the album may have been carrying it to a celebration.

No records of the couple exist on National Express systems, suggesting if Patrica or Brian themselves lost the album, they had purchased an on-the-day ticket.

Keen to return the album, the coach firm is appealing to the public for help.

The wedding album has a well-worn cream cover – suggesting it has been thumbed through many times over the years. Inside are 15 black and white photographs from an age when Beatlemania swept the world and Morris Minors ruled the roads.

The bride wears a traditional veil and a brocade gown with a pretty pearl trim while the groom looks dashing and best man Derrick sports a classic nineteen sixties double-breasted suit.

Rosalyn Gold of National Express, said: “The photographs of Brian and Patricia are absolutely charming and the wedding looks to be such a happy day.

"We don’t know who lost the wedding album but it is clear it must hold huge sentimental appeal to have been carried around after all these years.

"We’re really keen to get this album home – wherever that may be – and would be overjoyed for it to be returned to its rightful owner.”