A homeowner who stumbled upon a hidden safe embedded in the walls of her property has shared dramatic footage of the moment she managed to prise it open. Lucy, accompanied by her father, took to TikTok after making the exciting discovery and eventually finding the correct key to unlock it.
For the past two months, she has been in the process of renovating her Georgian farmhouse that once belonged to her grandmother, documenting the progress online. The project has hit stumbling blocks already, however, including several cracked ceilings and "slightly suspect walls" caused by "historic leaks and beetle activity" in the joists.
That hasn't put a dampener on Lucy's spirits though as she expressed her excitement at finding the safe.
"We unlocked it!" she declared in a caption, before elaborating: "This safe had no key and was stuck in the middle of the house while we were renovating around it - but then my dad found what he thought might be the key and the rest, as they say, is history."
And historical it was somewhat. Lucy's dad began by blowing off the dust that had accumulated around the handle, before inserting the key and pulling it hard.
Then it was onto the "big reveal". The treasures inside appeared to be a series of cutlery items, letters and envelopes, and a small picture frame.
"Please do a reveal!" urged one viewer in response, prompting Lucy to admit: "There were some really special things inside, but unfortunately not the sort of things that will pay for the renovation… I’ll film them soon though!"
Sure enough, Lucy later returned to her platform with a follow-up clip to detail the safe's contents. "Genuinely I couldn’t believe it when the key turned!" she confessed.
"We found some amazing things in the loft so you'd think what's in the safe would be even better," Lucy went on to tease. "But as previously established, there was cutlery."
One piece, however, came in the form of silver spoon commemorating the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937.
A letter followed sent "On His Majesty's Service", meanwhile, but this just proved to be an income tax bill.
More interestingly, however, was a marriage licence stamped with a wax seal and a wedding order of service booklet, dated February 4, 1961.
"How lovely that they kept sentimental stuff in the safe!" one person penned in reply. "I bet it’s firesafe."
And a second praised: "Wow, how interesting."
Lucy also shared an update on her renovation, stating: "Now we know where the problems are, we have got a structural engineer coming to check out the very beetle-eaten beam and the cracked chimney breast.
