A woman and her brother Birmingham They were shocked to discover a mysterious package hidden behind a fireplace while they were renovating the house.
Scott Bevan, 42, was amazing Time capsule from 1969 hidden while she was doing renovations at her sister’s house in that UK city.
While he chipped a wall in front of the gaze of Debora, his sister, came across the find.
The package contained newspapers Old Birmingham Evening Mail from 1969 as well as a black and white photograph of the previous owner of the house, Ethel Wright.
Just 15 minutes later, Scott found out a second capsule on a column in front of the fireplace from 34 years ago.
In the parcel I found a heartwarming note from the previous owners wishing each new tenant “luck and happiness in the house”, something that moved both him and her. The message started by saying: “To whom it may concern. We wish you much happiness and good luck in your new home” .
And he continued: “We arrived here at the end of May 1967, at the time it was newly built and in these four walls we found satisfaction and security. We hope you enjoy the house and garden as much as we do. The original fireplace was built in 1969and it’s in August of 1988, but I guess by the time you get there, the major changes will be lost, so you will probably find this note.”
“Good luck, greetings, Ethel and Harold Wright,” the note concluded.
“I think it’s kind of selfless and charming and so on that’s what the world is missing right now: think of others,” Scott said.
Debbie bought the house about two weeks agobut it had been empty for four years before she moved, so it needed a lot of work,” she said.
He said the package was wrapped in a plastic bag under some loose bricks.
Deborah got “quite emotional” reading the card. He moved indoors to be closer to his family after suffering a brain aneurysm.
“He really hopes that this move, which is where our mother, sister and brother also live, will begin a new and better chapter in your life“Said Scott, who said his sister cried when she saw the message.
The first newspaper dates from April 1969, two years after the family moved into the newly built house Croy Drive, Castle Vale.
THE front page news in that reported newspaper wage protests at the Longbridge factory, a hunger strike at Winson Green prison, and an explosion at a coal mine in Mexico.
The second package contains the second newspaper, dated August 1988, with a 12-page special on the upcoming Birmingham Super Prize. Even the black and white photo depicting Ethel, elegantly dressed in a hat, jacket and tie.
“I think it was amazing that this wonderful couple had the foresight to do what they did – it meant so much to Debbie, something lovely, and it was an honor to have been the one to find her“Said Scott, who took the trouble to track down Esther’s son Paul to inform him of the discovery and return his mother’s photo.
Source: Clarin
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