 It was signed by workers in 1887 ( Eilidh Stimpson) She told Edinburgh Live : "It's pretty cool, and so lucky as well because we were meant to be moving a radiator from one side of the wall to the other. The plumber came and started cutting a hole and said it was going to be a bit of a nightmare as there was a floor on top of a floor. "Then he came down the stairs going, 'look at what I just found in the hole I just made!'. It was quite exciting." Although she was desperate to open the bottle immediately, Eilidh decided she would wait until her two children - aged 10 and eight - came home from school so that they could be involved in discovering what the Victorian-era message had said. The mum-of-two said her kids were "super excited" to read the message, and once her partner had come home from work, the family set about trying to get the message out of the bottle - which left them needing to break the glass. She added: "The [kids] were super excited. When I picked them up from school I said 'I've got the most exciti){kind=link}
Eilidh Stimpson was gobsmacked when she stumbled across the bottle which had been left under her floorboards since 1887 – and contained a note written by two workers
When you get a tradesperson round to fix a leaky pipe or check your boiler, you don’t expect them to dig up a forgotten relic from over a century ago, do you?
But that’s exactly what happened to one mum after a plumber she had booked to help her move a radiator just so happened to cut through her floorboards in the exact spot where a bottle with a message inside had been buried 135 years beforehand.
Eilidh Stimpson, from Edinburgh, was stunned when plumber Peter Allan told her what he had uncovered beneath the floor of her home and handed her an old whisky bottle containing a rolled-up piece of paper.
She told Edinburgh Live : “It’s pretty cool, and so lucky as well because we were meant to be moving a radiator from one side of the wall to the other. The plumber came and started cutting a hole and said it was going to be a bit of a nightmare as there was a floor on top of a floor.