BRENDA Crompton is searching for a lead to find the owner of a silver dog collar featured on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, and in this column, last month.

Brenda believes the posh collar could have belonged to her husband Richard's family who were butchers in Elliott Street, Tyldesley, from Victorian times until pre-war.

Now she would like to see it back in her family if the collector owner from the south would sell.

She said either Richard's father or grandfather, both Frank Cromptons, could have been the owners of the collar, now valued at over £120, but grandfather, who bred Manchester terriers in the 1860s is the most likely.

Brenda, who worked in physiotherapy at Leigh Infirmary for 27 years, and Richard, lived in the same Crawford Avenue, Tyldesley, home for over 40 years, but last year moved to be nearer their children in the Radcliffe area.

They were as surprised as I was to see the name and address on the engraved collar on the show, then to be told about my piece in The Journal.

Brenda tells me the family were well to do in the early days and it seemed likely that only a better off family would be able to afford such a collar.

They had the first trotting horse in Tyldesley and roasted the ox at Tyldesley fair.

Brenda, like me, would love to find out how the collar got to the show in Egham and is hoping to trace the owner through the show.

I wish her every success.