Overview

• Excavation for a new paediatric oncology centre led staff to retrieve the lead‑lined wooden box decades before its intended 100‑year opening.
• Ten items were documented, including a Kylie Minogue CD, a Casio pocket TV, a solar calculator, a European passport, coins, seeds, a hologram snowflake, recycled paper, a photo of Diana and a copy of The Times.
• Many of the objects were selected in 1991 by Blue Peter competition winners David Watson, then 11, and Sylvia Foulkes, then 9, who worked alongside Diana.
• The opening was described as a moving moment by hospital workers and former patients who witnessed the discovery.
• Staff highlighted technological obsolescence after finding no CD player on site, and the hospital plans to place a replacement time capsule within the rebuilt facility.