Lonely heart letters written by 2 teenage girls found 55 years after they were put in a bottle and hopefully tossed into a river estuary

• A group cleaning a riverbank found an old bottle secured with a cork containing two letters.
• The letters were from 1966, written by two 15-year-olds searching for love.

Lonely heart letters in a bottle, written by two teenage girls, have been found more than 50 years later, according to reports.

The letters in a bottle, dated August 9, 1966, were found by volunteer litter pickers near the Humber Estuary, northeast England, last week, reported the BBC.

"Please write if you're a boy under 18 over 16. Please send photo and one will be exchanged," one letter read, signed by a 15-year-old Jennifer Coleman.

The other letter reads, "I am 15, not bad looking, long wavy brown, chestnut hair 5 foot 4 inches," signed by Janet Blankely.

Speaking to the local outlet GrimsbyLive, Tracey Marshall, a member of the Scunthorpe Litter Pickers, said it was "just really exciting and when we saw the dates and how long they had been there for."

She said that Coleman is now in her early seventies and living in Sydney, Australia.

The litter pickers found the bottle close to where it had been hopefully tossed initially into the water and had probably washed back to the shore on the next tide, Coleman told the BBC.

She said that she and her girlfriend dispatched the heart-felt letters while visiting her aunt, and stories from books inspired the idea.

Coleman said the romantic appeal did not work. "I didn't find my mate until I was 49," she said, per the BBC.

The Scunthorpe Litter Pickers Facebook page first announced the find. They have not been able to get in touch with Janet Blankley.