Teens discover beach message in bottle written decades ago: 'No name or address'

A connection successful a vessel sent by unit oregon students from a schoolhouse that nary longer exists has washed up connected a beach, quality bureau SWNS reported — and was promptly recovered by a radical of young people. 

Hedda Traa Haukom was connected the formation successful Ny-Hellesund successful the southbound of Norway with her cousins erstwhile they discovered the connection successful a bottle.

"We stumbled connected a vessel with a portion of insubstantial inside," Haukom, 14 years old, told the quality outlet. "It was located 10 meters from shore, nether a rock. The vessel looked beauteous old, truthful we decided to unfastened it and work the note."

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"There was nary name, twelvemonth oregon code connected the enactment oregon vessel itself," Haukom told SWNS.

The connection said: "To the finder, Please instrumentality this vessel to Bolton County Grammar School, Bolton, Lancashire, England. And they volition person 1 lb oregon the equivalent successful Francs. Written connected the Channel Boat. Thank you!"

The connection appeared to person been sent from Bolton County Grammar School — which changed its sanction 42 years ago. (Hedda Traa Haukom / SWNS)

Although it is unclear precisely erstwhile the enactment was written, the Bolton County Grammar School changed its sanction successful 1982 — making the enactment astatine slightest 42 years old.

The enactment whitethorn person been dropped from a ferry arsenic the young radical were making their mode to France connected a schoolhouse trip, the radical surmised.

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"It would beryllium truly amusive to find whoever wrote the connection and fto them cognize we got it and however acold it traveled implicit truthful galore years," Haukom said.

Bolton County Grammar School archetypal opened successful 1881 arsenic Bolton Higher Grade School. 

Hedda Traa Haukom was connected the formation successful Ny-Hellesund successful the southbound of Norway with her cousins erstwhile they discovered the connection successful a bottle. (Hedda Traa Haukom / SWNS)

The schoolhouse moved to a azygous tract connected Great Moor Street successful 1897, and successful 1947 the gathering became Bolton County Grammar School. In 1966, the schoolhouse was moved to Breightmet, maintaining its presumption arsenic a grammar school.

In 1982, it changed its sanction erstwhile again to Withins School. Withins past closed successful 2009 and a caller school, Bolton St. Catherine’s Academy, opened connected the aforesaid tract successful its place.

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This isn’t the archetypal clip a bottled portion of past has made its mode into modern-day headlines.

In Sept. 2024, archaeology students moving successful Normandy discovered a brackish vessel – implicit with a handwritten enactment – wrong a clay pot, Smithsonian Magazine reported. 

It seems the vessel was dropped from a ferry arsenic students made their mode to France connected a schoolhouse trip. (Hedda Traa Haukom / SWNS)

"P.J. Féret, a autochthonal of Dieppe, a subordinate of assorted intelligence societies, carried retired excavations present successful January 1825," the enactment said.

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Another message, this clip successful an aged Pepsi bottle, washed ashore successful Massachusetts earlier this April, according to WCVB successful Boston.

Two brothers, Clint and Evan Buffington, discovered the enactment portion combing the beach.

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The note, written successful 1976 by then-14-year-old Peter R. Thompson from West Newbury, Massachusetts, arsenic portion of an oceanography class, said, "I'm a 9th-grade pupil from Pentucket Regional Junior High School."

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The brothers ended up connecting with Thompson implicit the phone.

They anticipation to get the missive backmost to its writer soon, wrote WCVB.