Overview

• Excavated from the hospital’s main entrance wall, the lead-cased box held a Kylie Minogue CD, a Casio pocket TV, a solar-powered calculator, a photograph of Diana and a copy of The Times.
• The artifacts were chosen in 1991 by Blue Peter competition winners David Watson and Sylvia Foulkes to capture everyday life at the time, including coins, tree seeds, recycled paper, a passport and a snowflake hologram.
• GOSH says the capsule was opened earlier this year as demolition began for the new Children’s Cancer Centre, which targets a 2028 opening and a 20% increase in patient capacity.
• Hospital staff either born in 1991 or working there that year helped remove the box; several items show moisture damage and letters from the children are being conserved.
• Officials plan to bury a new capsule beneath the completed centre, echoing an 1872 royal tradition whose original GOSH capsule has never been found.