Kevin McKenna with the bottle and the list of names which he found inside it. (Picture by John O’Neill, 0794750)

A BUILDER has unearthed a link to Guernsey’s past underneath the floorboards of a house.

Kevin McKenna found a glass bottle complete with a pencil-written scroll detailing a list of names while replacing original timber floorboards with a concrete floor at a house in St Martin’s.

‘It’s not something you find every day. When I took it out, it looked like it was written in ink. The names are a list of tradesmen and are common ones. It would be interesting to find out who they were.’

Mr McKenna had been keen to see the note but had trouble at first extracting it from the flick-lid bottle.

The bottle itself was from the Guernsey Trader Aerated Water & Co., believed to have ceased training over 100 years ago.

The list, he discovered, was dated 8 March 1900.

The names on the list are:

• Charles Clemence – plasterer.
• Fred Mollet – plasterer.
• James whose surname was possibly Pimform or Sinford – plasterer.
• C. P. Bougourd – builder.
• Horace Bougourd – carpenter.

* If you know who might have written this note or recognise any of the names mentioned on it, phone Zoe Ash on 240248 or email zash@guernsey-press.com