GLANCING at one of his wife’s Cliff Richard albums, grandfather of two Dennis Goldsmith, thought the scene looked familiar.

The image on the 1981 compilation album Cliff Richard Love Songs shows the Peter Pan of Pop leaning casually against a post against a seaside backdrop.

Dennis, of Tuckton Road, Tuckton, realised that the photo, attributed to photographer Gered Mankowitz, looked uncannily like Southbourne promenade.

After months of cycling up and down the prom trying to locate the spot Dennis finally found it last Sunday and got wife Ros, 66, to snap him there in an identical pose.

Ros, who is a fan of the star, and Dennis took around 15 minutes re-creating the shot in painstaking detail.

They made sure he was standing in the same place by counting the spaces in the railings and even re-took it when Dennis realised that Cliff had crossed his feet the other way round.

Dennis, like the star, is also celebrating his 70 birthday this year.

He said: “It took me a while to find it. I went out looking periodically for months cycling up and down the promenade.

“My wife was pleasantly surprised at how well the photograph turned out.”