Overview

• Unearthed during redevelopment works, the lead-cased box contained a Kylie Minogue CD, a Casio pocket TV, a solar-powered calculator, British coins, tree seeds, a European passport, a snowflake hologram, a photograph of Diana and a copy of The Times.
• The objects were selected via a BBC Blue Peter competition by children David Watson and Sylvia Foulkes to capture everyday life in 1991.
• Despite moisture damage, the artifacts remain identifiable, and archivists are restoring affected papers, including letters from the children.
• Hospital staff born in 1991 or working at GOSH that year helped remove the capsule, an experience described by project leaders as “really quite moving.”
• GOSH links the discovery to its largest fundraising effort for the new centre, with officials citing a 2028 opening target and a planned 20% capacity increase, and the hospital intends to seal a new commemorative capsule once construction is complete.