Anyone Identify This Spring + Rear handbrake seized on

Wondered if anyone can help me with this…

Have had my car off the road to overhaul and I've a spring to reattach..my guess its something underneath the car but I cant find where! Its about 5 inches long.



A perhaps related problem is the the rear handbrake has just locked itself down and the off-side (right side) rear wheel is locked solid..

Anyone got any insights???

Thanks for any help.  

Yep it is one of the rear brake shoe springs!

Brake shoe springs??? I've not removed the rear drums..how can they escape?

erm check the back plates….they may have rusted through  :dontknow:

Yep, makes sense, that's one of the springs which returns the brake shoes to the the at rest position after they've been released. Things should look like this: