It's 1967 and I hope someone gets my message in a bottle
STRIKES at Lindsey Oil Refinery, a bridge over the Humber and the introduction of Breathalysers... topics a Grimsby man wrote about in a message in a bottle – which has been discovered 43 years on.
Leonard Samuel Reaney, died aged 54, a year after writing the letter, dated Wednesday, October 11, 1967, placing it in a bottle and tucking it away in a house in St Denys Close, South Killingholme.
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Yesterday, the bottle and its contents were discovered by an electrician as he removed some old kitchen units – and the Grimsby Telegraph tracked down Mr Reaney's surprised son.
Also named Leonard, the 66-year-old, who lives in Brigg, said: "I don't recall him telling me he had left a message in a bottle anywhere, and you never know – he could well have left more!"
Mr Reaney Senior was a chargehand electrician living in Grimsby at the time, and enclosed one of his pay slips from the Yorkshire Electricity Board in the bottle to prove this was the case.
Read more of this fascinating story in today's Grimsby Telegraph.
6 Comments
by John, Scaffa
Thursday, September 09 2010, 9:34PM
“It's very easy to see both sides in this argument. Problem is, as Jill says, to put the full story free on the net leads to reduced sales of hard copies. The internet being as it is, a story seen for free in California can equally be seen for free in Cleethorpes.
Internet advertising is not as effective as press advertising and does not cover the cost of the internet service. Maybe it is time for local papers like the GT to follow the lead of the Times and charge for its' internet service. £1 a week to view the site; saves costs on newsprint for the paper, provides a full service to anywhere in the world. It has to come one day. News maybe free but newsgathering isn't.”
by Michael, Here
Thursday, September 09 2010, 3:30PM
“That was exactly my point Meggies Lass, I cannot get the paper as I no longer live in the N E Lincs area.
Jill I do appreciate where you are coming from too...”
by DB, Waltham
Thursday, September 09 2010, 3:30PM
“The Telegraph do state ' Read FULL Story' , not part, some or reduced but FULL STORY. Many times the FULL STORY does not appear.
With regard to 'Jill, Cleethorpes' the Telegraph is also receiving income from the advertisers on this website and logically readers are entitled to a FULL STORY. Perhaps the Editor could advise why the web rports are cut short?.”
by Meggies' Lass, California
Thursday, September 09 2010, 3:04PM
“Jill, Cleethorpes has a good point, but I live in Clifornia, and don't have access to the whole paper, so I'm with Michael, Here. I really wish I had full access.”
by Jill, Cleethorpes
Thursday, September 09 2010, 11:49AM
“To be fair to The telegraph, If they were to print all the stories in full online, they would lose the revenue from people buying the newspaper.
I glance at The Grimsby Telegraph online and then go buy the paper if I want to learn more about the story.”
by Michael, Here
Thursday, September 09 2010, 11:07AM
“Yet again another half story from the Telegraph. Some people do not have access to the paper version, please can you consider that when putting part stories on here?”