You know what it’s like, you look through some old family pictures and you come across some where you don’t recognise the people, the location is unfamiliar, and the occasion is a mystery.
It’s the same for us. Sometimes the original information with the photos is lost, or we have been sent them in the hope that someone, somewhere, can solve the riddle or come up with some information.
Our readers are always the best detectives, so examine the evidence in these images and see if you can spot any clues that might help put the pieces of the puzzle together. Let us know what you discover in the comments.
And no, this isn’t some sort of test where we give the answers at the end. We really don’t know.
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9. At your service
Tennis players at the National Sports Centre at Lilleshall Hall. It could be a team. It could be a competition. It could be... well, anything. It looks to be around the 1960s. | Unknown
10. Earn your stripes
Alan Cade was chairman of Ludlow Town for about 24 years, and came across this while looking through stuff in an old biscuit tin. He did not remember how or when he came by it but he thought somebody might have sent it to him. The inference is that this is a team from the Ludlow area. | Alan Cade
11. Tea for two
Look on the wall and there's a young man in uniform. This pair may have a brother serving in the Great War. This was in an album of photos which somehow came into the possession of Alf and Elsie Mason, who lived in Little Stretton from about 1976 to 1992. Their daughter Barbara Watson, of Stourbridge, sought to trace the original owners, as those in the photos were not family members. | Barbara Watson
12. Out of puff
The late Russell Mulford of Shrewsbury was a great steam enthusiast and had hoped we could help with this one: "Herewith a pic which has come my way, a weird-looking locomotive (British manufacture?) carrying a note saying 'Built in 1859 and still working.' But working where, and for how long? I am told that the engine, named 'Countess', worked on the Shutt End Railway owned by the Earl of Dudley in South Staffs. Can anyone confirm this and dates?" | Russell Mulford