Australian man finds his childhood Matchbox car – five decades after it went missing in England

‘It’s my toy!’ … Tim Goodwin, outside the Peak Hill post office in Australia, with the precious Matchbox Ford Capri that disappeared when he was a boy. Photograph: supplied by Tim Goodwin

Peak Hill, Australia is a long way from Wellington in Somerset in the south-west of England. Further still to Doncaster in the UK. But that is the journey made by a pink Matchbox Ford Capri, originally bought by a little boy a long time ago.

That little boy is now 58-year-old Tim Goodwin, who along with his wife, Cathy, runs the Peak Hill post office in the town of about 1,000 people, in central NSW.