An amateur photographer’s snapshots showing the impact the World War I had on an English village have emerged more than 90 years after they were taken.

Amy Webber’s pictures show wounded soldiers in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, where the village hall was turned into a military hospital between 1915 and 1919.

Soldiers are seen posing with nurses watching as a flag is raised, enjoying a smoke while dressed in “hospital blues” and slippers and preparing for a concert or dance. Several pictures are marked with names, details and dates.

Mrs Webber, who lived in a village manor house with husband Mowbray and daughter Mona, worked at the hospital and can be seen in several images.

The snapshots were passed to Mrs Webber’s cook, Victoria Brooks, who also worked as a nurse at the hospital, and have been handed down to Mrs Brooks’s grand-daughter, retired nurse Libby Osman-Barter.

Mrs Osman-Barter’s family contacted villagers in Shepreth after hearing how a postcard written to a wounded soldier in April 1915 had been found behind a wooden panel in the village hall shortly before Christmas.

Locals were told that Mrs Osman-Barter had albums containing dozens of snapshots taken in Shepreth during and just after the Great War.

“It seems that Amy Webber was a very keen photographer and either took or had lots of pictures taken,” said Mrs Osman-Barter, 62, who was born in Shepreth but lives in Exmouth, Devon.

“At some stage albums were given to granny and they’ve been passed down to me. I think people should see them. They’re fascinating.” In December, workmen fixing floorboards at the hall found a postcard written to Private Edward Wolstencroft in April 1915 hidden behind wooden wall panels.

Locals want to return the card, which appears to have been written by a woman named “Nellie”, to the soldier’s family.

On the card “Nellie” wrote, “Dear Teddy, Don’t think I have forgotten you letter following hopeing (sic) you are quite alright, love from Nellie.”

Villagers think the card slipped behind panels after being propped on a shelf.

Data shows that Private Wolstencroft, who came from Edmonton, Middlesex, died at the age of 26 on July 7 1916 – a week after British troops launched their ill-fated Somme attack on German lines.

Records show that he is remembered on the war memorial dedicated to missing World War I soldiers at Thiepval in the Picardie region of France.