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18.11.2022 - 01:35 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A mum has been left flabbergasted after she found a 135-year-old time capsule underneath the floorboards in her home.
Eilidh Stimpson, from Edinburgh, could hardly believe her eyes when she discovered a delicately inscribed message on the ancient note, which had been rolled up inside an empty whisky bottle and hidden away under the floor. The Victorian-era bottle was discovered earlier this week by her plumber, Peter Allan, who just happened to find it in a hole he cut in the floor.
The whimsical note had been stashed on October 6, 1887, and had lain undisturbed since. By pure chance, Peter happened upon the bottle as he carried out work to shift a radiator around in Eilidh's Morningside flat. said the find was "pretty cool."
Mum-of-two and GP Eilidhtold our sister site Edinburgh Live: "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."
Amazed by what Peter had found, Eilidh decided to wait until her two children, aged 8 and 10, got home from school before opening the cork on the bottle and reading what was contained inside. In the end, they realised they were going to have to break the glass to avoid tearing the historic note.
"They were super-excited," said Eilidh, describing her kids' reaction. "When I picked them up from school I said 'I've got the most exciting thing to tell you' - to which they asked: 'are we having hot dogs for tea?' 'More exciting than that,' I said!
"My 8-year-old is in P4 and is actually learning about the Victorians right now,
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