The time capsule that never was.

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Back in 1974 three of us tiled Oldham swimming pools the team was Tommy Milne his brother Ron sadly passed and myself.
Last week Tommy rang me out of the blue and asked if I remember planting a time capsule in a scum channel, which I did Tommy now in his 80s and I met up last Friday with some people involved in local history who wanted to locate the time capsule.

Between us we narrowed it Down to half a linear meter, in September the engineers will try to extract it and have asked the two of us to attend.

 

[nybor62]

i hope you retrieve it phil

 

[Time's Ran Out]

You should have taken a photo on your phone, added the details to your notebook, and sent it to the cloud storage for safe retrieval!

 

[Alan.P]

Great idea, who put into it ?

 

[Sean Kelly]

1974. There's got to be an ABBA record in there.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Ii put it in, it could have been Tommy.

 

[Chalker]

Ii put it in, it could have been Tommy.

Probably a copy of fiesta! And and empty pack of ****!

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Probably a copy of fiesta! And and empty pack of ****!

I rang Tommy and his wife told me he had passed away the night before.

RIP Tommy Milne Great tiler and a real gentleman. Love to his wife Brenda and his family.

 

[Dan]

That's sad news. So close to the three of you going sort it out too. I'm sure his family aren't too fussed about that right now but in a few years they might think back and see the awful timing kinda thing.

RIP Tommy. Never knew the guy but if he's on of you I'm sure he was an awesome tiler and sound bloke Phil.