THE memories may have faded, but these newly found photos of bygone Britain are clear enough to have been taken yesterday.

    The remarkable collection shows a forgotten age in the years after the war, as the country learned how to enjoy itself once again.

    Old-fashioned shops line streets that are empty apart from the odd car.

    Couples wear their finest clothes as they enjoy a meal outside their new homes and children flock to church Sunday schools.

    Other pictures show Heathrow Airport in its early days, with passengers boarding a silver British European Airways plane directly from the tarmac.

    Another has a family group enjoying a lazy summer’s day in a punt, while others show a country fair where a new car can be won for a shilling.

    The slides, dating from the 1950s, were among 200 found on eBay by collector Martin Snelling.

    He has spent the past six months collecting over 6,000 retro slides from auctions and car boot sales as part of an art project documenting the changing face of Britain.

    Snelling, 44, believes the around 200 of the images were taken by one man, named David Bryant — and he is trying to return them to the original owners. Snelling bought the latest slides on eBay Jan. 2 from a man who himself found them at an auction in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.(SD-Agencies)