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Mechanical engineer, Ross Russell of the Northern Lighthouse Board, was working on a 200-year-old lighthouse in Barnhills, Scotland when he discovered a message in a bottle hidden in the wall.

The message was dated September 4th, 1892, and referred to three lighthouse engineers who installed a new type of light in the tower. Serendipitously, Russell was there to service that very light.

After getting the bottle out of the wall, Russell and his coworkers called the current lighthouse keeper, Dr. Barry Miller, who was given the honor of opening the message after 132 years.

Dr. Miller told the BBC,

It was so exciting, it was like meeting our colleagues from the past. It was actually like them being there.

The BBC was able to do some background research on the engineers named in the letter and even uncovered a photograph of one of the men mentioned at the lighthouse, John Wilson (pictured second from the left.)

Dr. Miller went on to say of the letter from his predecessors,

It was like touching them. Like them being part of our team instead of just four of us being there, we were all there sharing what they had written because it was tangible and you could see the style of their handwriting. You knew what they had done. You knew they had hidden it in such a place it wouldn’t be found for a long, long time.

The Northern Lighthouse Board is currently keeping the message safe in their offices while the lighthouse is being restored, but once construction is complete the current engineers have plans to add their own message to the bottle and hide it for future generations of lighthouse keepers to discover.

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