Snapshots of some of the biggest moments in 20th Century history have been uncovered in old newspapers at a home in Lower Westford.

Margaret Hollick was clearing up at her mother Audrey’s house when she came across papers dating back as far as the Second World War.

The wartime titles, from 1941 onwards, included papers covering VE-Day, VJ-Day, the liberation of the Channel Islands, Hitler’s death and Germany’s surrender.

They were collected by Margaret’s grandfather John Hollick, who started a family newsagents in Barking in East London in about 1930.

Newspapers from more recent times included the first copy of The Sun in 1964 and the Daily Mirror from July 21, 1969, covering the moon landing.

Margaret’s father Ted, who collected these papers, had seven news outlets in Barking, Dagenham and Elm Park in East London before selling up and moving to Wellington in the mid-1990s.

He was a lifetime member of the National Federation of the Newsagents, Booksellers and Stationers and became its president in 1979.