The next episode of ITV’s Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace will air emotional scenes as a man reunites with the woman who found him as a baby. On Boxing Day 1960 Harvey Shacklell, who is now 62 years old, was found in a cardboard box covered in brown paper on the doorstep of a house in Hayes, Middlesex that belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Wood.
Mrs. Vera Wood, who is now 88 years old, tells Harvey: “I’ve never forgotten you,” as she sees him for the first time since discovering him as a baby. The pair then go into her house and she tells him what she knows about where he came from.
Vera tells Harvey that she tried to keep him as a baby and even searched for him after he was taken away by the police, and later adopted by a different family. “I've always been thinking, where was I found? You saved my life really. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be here now,” he says to her.
