REWIND readers are asked to help fill in some details about this atmospheric image.

It belongs to Swindon man Tim Midwinter, and was handed to him by a cousin at a family gathering last year.

His late father, Tony, is shown standing next to the teacher on the left hand side of the image.

Tim said: “We had a family get-together towards the end of last year and a cousin came up with some photos and said, ‘These should be in your collection. She gave me three or four.”

The photograph was taken at Kingsdown School in Stratton and clearly commemorates a sporting triumph – quite an important one if the size of the trophy is anything to go by.

Guessing the age of young people in old photographs is an inexact science, but as Tony was born in 1933, the mid to late 1940s is the most likely period.

The image was printed by the Nottingham firm of H Tempest Ltd.

Tim suggests that the boys had just won a relay and the girls a netball competition. When the image is magnified, however, two of the girls seem to be wearing athletics spikes.

After leaving Kingsdown School, his late father worked at the GWR Works, Plessey, BP and BT.

He married Madeline, who survives him, and the couple had three children.

Tim said: “He was a good family man. He liked his holidays in Cornwall with the family.

“He was always into running and keeping fit. He died in 2010, and just four or five years prior to that he was still out running and walking.”