My Dad's Odd Coincidence

The oddest thing happened to Brian, my father, in the mid thousands when he was viewing a house in Spain. He'd decided already that it was in too remote a location but the price struck him as being very reasonable so he kept his appointment to be shown around the place all the same. The walls had been decorated by the Dutch man who owned the place with old photos that had been bought in junk shops. And there, at the top of the stairs, was a school photograph. He was, at the age of twelve, standing in the second row. From a local junk shop antique photographs had been bought with which to decorate the house, and among them was a school photograph of the assembled pupils from a certain Birmingham Grammar school in 1951.