Overview

• Great Ormond Street Hospital unearthed and opened the lead-lined capsule in late August 2025 during excavation for a new pediatric oncology centre, decades earlier than intended.
• The box held ten early‑1990s items, including a Kylie Minogue Rhythm of Love CD, a Casio pocket television, a solar calculator, a European passport, coins, seeds, a snowflake hologram, a copy of The Times, recycled paper and a photograph of Diana.
• Many objects were in good condition after more than three decades underground, though staff noted the hospital no longer has a device to play the recovered CD.
• The selection was made in 1991 by two Blue Peter competition winners, David Watson (then 11) and Sylvia Foulkes (then 9), with Diana present for the burial ceremony.
• The opening brought together hospital workers, former patients and people born in 1991, and the hospital said a new time capsule will be interred as part of the ongoing redevelopment.