Engineers making repairs to a remote Scottish lighthouse were shocked when they found a mysterious message in a bottle hidden inside the walls.
However, they were even more surprised to discover that the note was written by the last group of engineers to work on the lighthouse over 132 years ago.
The hidden letter was discovered in the Corsewall Lighthouse which was built in 1817 near the village of Kirkolm on a peninsula overlooking the Irish Sea.
Inside a glass bottle, the crew found a letter written with quill and ink detailing the installation of a new lantern and lens, as well as the names of the engineers and lighthouse keepers.
Ross Russell, a technician who found the bottle, says: ‘The note was just sensational, I was just in utter amazement.
‘Being the first person to touch the bottle after 132 years was just mind-blowing. It’s a once in a …