A man has discovered a message in a bottle from 1974 during home renovations.
Matt Streatfeild, from Newcastle, New South Wales, was in the middle of knocking down walls when he came across a glass milk bottle from nearly 50 years ago.
Inside it was a letter dated April 5, 1974, from the then plasterers who had built the walls – giving an insight to what life was like in Australia at the time.
"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," Streatfeild told NBN News.
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