A family got a nostalgic surprise when they began redecorating their new home and found a message about time travel under the wallpaper dating back over four decades.
“It was my daughter who first saw it. We were in my daughter's bedroom and started stripping the first layer of wallpaper when we found it,” explained dad Karl Murphy.The Murphy family moved into their new home in Lancashire earlier this year, in January, but only recently started to strip the walls of the original wallpaper that was left when they bought the property.“Or am I the past? “The only answer to that - you are my future, I am your past.
Not expecting much to come from the post, Karl was pleasantly surprised when he was contacted by a family friend who had recognised the Walmsley name. “I was very happy they discovered it,” Eileen said. “I was around 14 or 15 - I vaguely remember writing it. I knew the bedroom was going to be decorated and I thought, you either do something or you don’t.
When she turned 18, she moved to Brighton to go to university and since then, only ever came back to her childhood home in Accrington to visit occasionally.