SAY cheese! This merry group of daytrippers certainly knew how to smile - and so they should as they were all members of Redditch Camera Club.

Here they are in summer 1952 on a photographic outing to Tardebigge Locks.

The gentleman with the glasses in the back row sixth from the right is Mr Boyd. He was the president of the club and owned a camera shop in Church Green West.

The picture was kindly sent in by James O'Keeffe, of Abbey Road, who can be seen in the back row on the extreme right.

He said: "We used to go on quite a few outings."

Old pictures of Redditch or its surrounding villages can be sent to Julian Seva at the Redditch Advertiser and will be returned once used.