A woman has come forward to say she is certain a mystery note found on a bottle of whisky from 67 years ago was written by her builder dad.

The message was discovered attached to an empty bottle of Black & White Scotch whisky behind a staircase by a joiner working on a refurbishment of the Liversage Trust's almshouses in London Road, Derby.

Jackie Broad said she was alerted to the story and recognised her father's handwriting and the address of the family home, 83 Swarkestone Drive, Littleover, where she lived until she was five.

The 65-year-old told the BBC her father, Wilfred Henry Broad, was a bricklayer who went on to start his own construction firm.

The note, written on the back of a Ciro nylon hairnet packet and signed at the end, said: "The best of luck mate. I hope you are not at war - it's a terrifying thing war.

"This was bricked up Oct 12th 1959. Just after the general election when the Conservatives got in by a 101 majority.

"It is raining in Derby now for the first time since about April after a first class summer. Derby 1 Portsmouth 0. Not doing so well this season Derby."

The Liversage Trust described it as "a remarkable snapshot of life in Derby on the day it was hidden" in 1959.

Broad said she was alerted to its existence by her brother who had spotted the news story.

"When we looked closer at the bottom, we realised it was 83 Swarkestone Drive - that's where us as four kids lived - and then we realised it was Broad at the bottom," she said.

"We knew he was brickie and he was from Derby.

"I just thought it was so dad to be honest, that was the sort of think he'd have done.

"It was interesting for us to look on it because obviously we weren't born then.

"So, to look at the fact that he was doing some building work and what his life was, and about the Conservatives, it's a little snippet of history which we laughed about as well because that was typical dad."

Broad, who now lives in Spain, said her dad died in 1982 at the age of 52.

She said he "loved singing" and "loved building" and would always be there to help with anything the children needed.

"Anyone who knew him would tell you he was a character," she said.

"He was just a really nice bloke really. Whatever I wanted him to do or needed him to do, he always did it."