Preserved note is found by builders

A cheeky note left tucked in a tin and hidden in a wall of a police station has been discovered by builders nearly 70 years later.

Construction workers who are currently working on the £1 million revamp of Oldbury's former library and turning it into a JD Wetherspoon pub, discovered the note in the wall in the building.

The building was initially a courthouse and police station with cells, and the court room on the first floor of the premises still retains its original features. It became the town's library in 1979.

The letter had browned with age and was marked with rust from where it had been kept in the tin.

The note read: "In the early days of 1942, a hole was made in this wall to provide an intercom between Divisional Office and the Liaison Officer. Little Jimmy was always complaining of the draught, so Supt.J.C.George, then reigning, but soon to retire (we hope) ordered the hole to be bricked up."

The note states this was done by bricklayers Griffiths and Castles at 3pm on October 7 1942.

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