An old colleague got in touch after 50 years, thanks to the Guardian

Colleagues reunited … Madge Christopher was contacted by a man she worked with 50 years ago. Photograph: Jim Wileman/The Guardian

My photograph appeared in your article on the aftermath of Storm Goretti (‘It has been traumatic’: the Cornwall landmark left battered by Storm Goretti, 3 April), and now I have an extraordinary tale to tell.

Within a day or so of the publication, I received an email from a man called Robert who said that, more than 50 years ago, we had worked in the same local government establishment, which was an office with a small number of employees. But there was more…