Message in a bottle

A construction crew has found a message in a bottle from the team that last worked on the site more than 50 years ago.

Anthony Gibbons, from Newcastle, said his team had found the handwritten note at Hexham’s former swimming baths.

The document lists the names of the men who worked on building the baths in 1973 along with their trades and where they come from.

Mr Gibbons said everyone in the crew “felt quite proud and honoured” to have found the note.

The team is currently converting the site into 49 apartments.

Mr Gibbons said one of his bricklayers found the “pristine” note on Tuesday in a glass Schweppes bottle hidden in the cavity of an external wall.

“It’s not often you find little time capsules,” he said.

“If you see in it person, you would actually think it was written yesterday

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