so i'm nick, ewart�*s grandson.'s granddaughter. nice to meet you. this group of complete strangers are in the rather novel position of realising they're, in fact, long lost relatives. i'm lydia's great granddaughter. connected through three siblings and a postcard that turned up last week. before this, we never met each other. this has been quite a magical moment, really, to discover, especially for us that are trying to build our family trees and going into genealogy, this has opened up so much information. a note from a brother to his sister, this postcard, it turns out, set off a century—long chain reaction, now bringing together the grandson of the sender, ewart, great—granddaughter of the recipient, lydia, and the granddaughters of their brother, stanley. it's quite bizarre, seeing the family likenesses, if we look the same. i find it fascinating to look at all these photos and to piece together stories. and we've been trying to find out, you know, what did they do, where did they go, where did they end up? an

um, �*love to all from ewart�* at the end there.tten in by row and they don�*t have by rows in that day. also this written in pencil is not an edwardian hand. but wherever it�*s been in the meantime, last week it ended up once again on the right street, but at what�*s now the wrong address, a building society. obviously savings and mortgages is my normal day to day stuff, so i thought i'll post it on our socials. hopefully there may be someone who may know of lydia, or know of a family member to connect it to lydia in swansea. did you expect it to get this far? no, no, to be able to connect a long—lost family because of a postcard that kind of came to our head office is amazing. meaning so much to so many, the family have decided to donate the postcard to west glamorgan archive service. as for this group, now the chance to do what most families do, get on with a good gossip. so that would be david. after all, there�*s a lotto catch up on. yeah. lucy vladev, bbc news. now it�*s time for the weather with darren. thanks very much again

so i'm nick, ewart�*s grandson.r. nice to meet you. this group of complete strangers are in the rather novel position of realising they're, in fact, long lost relatives. i'm lydia's great granddaughter. connected through three siblings and a postcard that turned up last week. before this, we never met each other. this has been quite a magical moment, really, to discover, especially for us that are trying to build our family trees and going into genealogy, this has opened up so much information. a note from a brother to his sister, this postcard, it turns out, set off a century—long chain reaction, now bringing together the grandson of the sender, ewart, great—granddaughter of the recipient, lydia, and the granddaughters of their brother, stanley. it's quite bizarre, seeing the family likenesses, if we look the same. i find it fascinating to look at all these photos and to piece together stories. and we've been trying to find out, you know, what did they do, where did they go, where did they end up? and of course, yo

, and this is sent to a 16 year old, actually, in 1903 called miss lydia davis from someone called ewartgs in pocket money, not counting the train fare. so he's doing all right. unfortunately lydia is no longer around to receive. receive the news, but the post office says that they were rather stuffily. they are obuged were rather stuffily. they are obliged to deliver letters when they are in the post box. and even though she's no longer there , they have to deliver it there, they have to deliver it to the address which is on the postcard, which is very. >> how can they be stuffy about it? they've delivered it 121 years later. >> well, indeed, it's now a building society in in craddock street, apparently. where in swansea, where it's been delivered and they're trying to track down the descendants of lydia davis to give her the postcards. >> wow. oh, good. >> wow. oh, good. >> that's nice. good. have we lost the art of letter writing? i feel like people just don't write postcards anymore. or letters to each other. >> i got i got a lovely. yeah, i got a request. i was in aberdeen on holida