Man finds 50-year-old message in bottle

Aman discovered a 50-year-old message in a bottle while renovating his house. Matt Streatfeild found a glass milk bottle in the walls as he completed building work on his home in New South Wales, Australia. It contained a note that had been signed by the four workers who constructed the walls back in 1974. Streatfeild told NBN News: “You always hear the legend of messages in a bottle, but you never think you’ll find one in-between two walls in your own house.”

He was able to track down one of the builders, 66-year-old Ron Niddrie, who was astonished by the discovery.

Niddrie said: “One of those little mementos has paid off. The fact that it was 47 years ago was even more of a shock.”

Streatfeild plans to return the bottle back to where he found it when the renovations are complete, and hopes somebody else can discover it in the future.

He said: “When we re-sheet this wall, we’re going to place the old bottle that we found from 1974 with that piece of history, and we’re going to add our own.”