The hunt is on for a mystery woman whose wallet was discovered down the back of a radiator at a night club in Manchester, over 30 years after it was lost.
The brown leather wallet was recently discovered behind a radiator during refurbishment at the Ritz in Manchester city centre.
Its contents have been described as a 'time capsule' that give an insight into the life of then teenager Elizabeth Sarah Dale in 1980s Manchester - a golden age for the city when the Haçienda was at its height and Morrissey was yet to become #problematic.
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The photo ID discovered inside the wallet shows the smiling young woman with shoulder-length hair wearing a crimped top.
There is also a Cheshire Libraries and Museums card, a University of Manchester Whitworth Park Residents' Association card from 1985/86, a Midland Bank cheque card, and a payslip alongside 12p in change.
Chris Mann, bar manager at the Ritz, said: "We were clearing out the other day because we're having a refurb in the offices, and it had fallen down the back of a radiator - it must have been lodged there since god knows when.
"Inside, it has a library card, an old Midland Bank cash cheque card, about 12p in change, a hand-written invoice, a payslip with the name of the company she worked for and a photographic student ID with an address in Thelwall.
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"She would maybe have been about 18 or 19 back then, so she might be in her early 50s now.
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"It's coming up to our 90th birthday but this wallet has been here for about 30 years, so we just figured it might be nice to reunite it with its owner. 'We want to have a chat with them to find out more about what they were doing in the Ritz and whether they actually remember it."
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