WHEN Maureen Skinner found handmade scrapbooks capturing the Queen’s early reign among her mother’s belongings she could not bear to throw them away.

But now, almost five years since Doris Webb died at the age of 86, Maureen has said she needs to clear out her own clutter – and she wants the small collection of Royal memorabilia to go to a good home in the Diamond Jubilee year.

The 64-year-old said her mother had been a staunch Royalist and had put a lot of work into making the picture books from photos in newspapers.

“She was a huge fan of the Queen,” said Maureen, a mother-of-two.

“I can remember when I was young she got me a dress with the red, white and blue trim. I grew up a Royalist too.

“She would have seen a few things in her time and she would have loved to have seen William and Kate’s wedding last year.”

Maureen stored her parents’ things at her Stratton home shortly after her father Doug died, one year after Doris’s death.

She said: “Dad went soon after – they had been together right from the word go and they had celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary a few years ago.

“But when he lost her I think he just didn’t want to be around.

“He had kept all of her stuff, including their letters from the Queen for the anniversary.

“I was just clearing her stuff out after my dad died and saw these scrapbooks of my mother’s.

“We tend to keep everything and it all accumulates but now I’m having a clear out and I didn’t want to just chuck them out.

“Nowadays, of course, you can get a colour photo book but she put a lot of effort into them, cutting out the pictures from the Adver and the national papers.

“I don’t mind who takes them and I don’t want any money for them.

“I just want to know they will go to someone who will make use of them, especially in the Jubilee year.”

If you would be interested in the memorabilia, which also includes a collection of pictures from the coronation printed in the Adver, please contact Maureen at maureen.sk1nner @aol.com.