What Coke cans looked like in 1991 (Picture: Will Unwin/Metro)

A developer had quite a surprise recently while pulling apart a house he was working on.

Will Unwin, 27, moved to Cheltenham from London to become a developer after closing down his former business, however judging by what he found in the first property he worked on he might have been better off going into archaeology.

While pulling up the floorboards in old Georgian property he discovered and 23-year-old unopened can of coca-cola.

Upon seeing this relic from past Will did what any man would do – he cracked it open and drank it.


He told Metro.co.uk exclusively: ‘It wasn’t fizzy, but it didn’t taste too bad and didn’t make me feel ill.’

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However that was only the start of Will’s adventure into the past.



Upon tearing down a wall on the house he discovered the front page of a newspaper from the day after President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.

Click to enlarge (Picture: Will Unwin/Mirror)

Click to enlarge (Picture: Will Unwin/Mirror)

‘It was a weird thing to find. Of all the ground breaking events that have shaped history, this one was used to line a wall,’ he said.

Will, who is getting married next month, now plans to frame the poignant front page of the Express and hang it in the house he is renovating, which was originally built in 1860.

He said: ‘Not only is this an amazing snippet of history, but it has also allowed me to pinpoint the exact date renovations have been made to the building.’

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