A UNIQUE CIGARETTE packet dating back to the Second World War has been found by man in Blackburn.

While renovating a ceiling at his home in Revidge Road, Imran Patel discovered the antique-looking cigarette packet.

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After opening it he was surprised to find a note dating back to 1940, discussing and the attacks from Germany.

Mr Patel said: “I was just taking the ceiling down when it dropped.

“I wondered what it was at first, I was intrigued.

“After finding it I was really shocked.

“I didn’t understand exactly what it meant at first, but when I showed some of my colleagues at work they helped me understand it all.”

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The packet fell from the ceiling while Mr Patel was doing work improving his house.

He managed to decipher that the note in the packet was signed by a plumber called ‘H Turner’ and that the cigarettes cost a shilling during the war.

The packet contained ‘Churchman Tenner Medium’ cigarettes, a popular brand during the 1930s and 1940s.

The note was written to mark the first time that Germany launched a bombing attack on London during the war, and finishes with the line, “This was a special war and deserves a packet of fags for it”.

The Second World War began on September 1, 1939 and continued for six years and a day until September 2, 1945.

The 41-year-old electronic engineer from Blackburn now must decided what to do with the historical note.

Mr Patel said: “I wasn’t sure what to do with it at first. I think I’ll take it to a museum unless I can find a relative of the man, who wrote it.

“You don’t expect to find something so historic like this doing work, the war was a special time.”

Cllr Arshid Mahmood, who represents for the Corporation Park ward on Blackburn with Darwen Council, said: “It is very intriguing and interesting how and what people felt at that difficult time.

“This creates a real humbling feeling to see this note found after all these years.

“It reminds us of what happened and lets us get an insight into the sorrow the hundreds of thousands of people involved in the conflict felt.

“It is always good to see the heritage and history of such an important time and to help understand the thoughts of people from the eyes of those that went through it.”