Overview

• Great Ormond Street Hospital removed the lead‑lined wooden capsule from its main entrance during works to create a new Children’s Oncology Centre and documented the contents.
• Recovered items include a Kylie Minogue CD, a pocket television, a solar calculator, British coins, Kew Gardens seeds, a snowflake hologram, a disposable camera, a comic, recycled paper, a European passport, a photograph of Diana and a copy of The Times.
• Staff highlighted format obsolescence after finding there was no device in the hospital capable of playing the CD.
• The collection was assembled in 1991 by Diana alongside two child patients, identified in reports as Sylvia Foulkes and David Watson.
• The hospital plans to install a new time capsule beneath the completed renovation to continue the commemorative tradition.