While clearing up beaches in South Ferriby on the Humber Estuary in North Lincolnshire, the Scunthorpe Litter Pickers group found a bottle with a message in it dating back to 1966. It had originally been launched by two 15-year-old girls, Jennifer Coleman and Janet Blankley, on 9 August that year, containing a message asking any single boys over the age of 16 and under the age of 18 to write back. After being traced to Australia, Coleman said that the bottle had been found only a few yards from where the girls had thrown in into the sea.
