‘We wanted to kiss some boys’: Heidelberg West teen’s journal found in England
A racy journal belonging to a Heidelberg West teen has been discovered by a woman in the roof of a house on the other side of the world. Can you help reunite the diary with its rightful owner? Here are the clues.
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A diary written by a teenager in 1973 from Heidelberg West has found its way to England, discovered by a woman in the roof of her house.
Victoria Thompson found the diary tucked up in the beams of her Hertfordshire home, on a vineyard in southern England.
She contacted the Leader in a the hopes of reuniting the journal with its rightful owner, a Diana Joy Davis.
“Some of the content is quite racy,” Mrs Thompson said.
From the journal entries she deduced Diana is younger than 16 and lived in Collins St, West Heidelberg.
“The house on the vineyard was not built until the 1980s and it has two previous British owners,” Mrs Thompson said.
“I am not sure how the diary got to Hertfordshire and why it was tucked up there in the beams.”
The journal details Diana’s day-to-day life, which include watching Burt Reynolds films and her many adventures with best friend Kim Benbow.
“After we went out from the pictures we stayed up for the New Year,” Diana wrote.
“We wanted to kiss some boys but we didn’t.”
Diana wrote that her favourite male singer is Elton John.
“We met tons of boys and there was one boy called Brendon I am wrapped in,”
Some entries are less racy than others.
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“I woke up at about quarter past 10 and listened to the radio for a while and then I got up and went to the toilet and then I had my breakfast (rice bubbles, two tomatoes on toast and a glass of milk),” she wrote.
Mrs Thompson said she has written a journal every evening since she was eight years old and would love for the owner to be reunited with the book.
“I would love to know what caused it to make such a long journey to England and why it was hidden away so far from home,” she said.
For any information regarding Diana Joy Davis or Kim Benbow contact