A man has shared a bizarre note left behind in the wall of his shop in the 1980s warning of an electrocution risk.

Daniel Bodman, 39, was renovating an old building in Devizes, Wiltshire when he came across the poster and letter.

Builder Nicholas Jo Poole warned he was fitting out the shop in 1986 when he was electrocuted after accidentally touching two bare wires together.

It was written on the back of a ‘Treatment of Electric Shock’ poster, complete with pictures of how to do CPR.

The full note read: ‘This shop “Herb Craft” was fitted by Nick Poole in August 1986 at an hourly rate of £2.00.

‘Nearly all the wood fitted had been taken down, cleaned up and reused so that the main costs were my wages.

‘The store walls are in a state so god knows what they will be like when you find this.

‘While doing this job, I was electrocuted because I touched two bare wires accidentally. Nicholas Jo Poole.’

Daniel is currently renovating the shop into a new showroom for his masonry business, Market Town Memorials.

He said he was in the middle of taking some cladding down when he noticed the folded poster in the wall.

Daniel added: ‘It makes an interesting little read, and had made us chuckle with what he had wrote it on. It would be interesting to find him.’

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