Picture the scene: you receive a letter through the post, and as you open it rose petals cascade out. In the age of WhatsApp and text messaging, such romantic gestures seem to belong in bygone days. Through inheriting a collection of letters written in 1926, Sally George has uncovered the story of a passionate affair that prevailed despite family disapproval, jealousy and prejudice.
Sally, who lives in Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, has been researching her family tree for 48 years. “The letters were written by my husband Steve’s paternal grandparents, Erroll George and Alice Jenkins.
“They were given to me in 2018, because I’m the family historian. Alice and Erroll didn’t like to throw things out, and their papers filled four suitcases and several boxes. They took up a whole room in our house.
“I started combing through the letters and putting
