Overview

• The lead-lined wooden box, buried with two child patients in March 1991, was opened on 27 August during works for the new cancer centre.
• Ten items chosen by Diana with Blue Peter contest winners David Watson and Sylvia Foulkes were catalogued, including a Kylie Minogue CD, a Casio pocket TV and a solar calculator.
• The cache also held British coins, tree seeds from Kew Gardens, a hologram snowflake, a passport, recycled paper, a disposable camera, a comic, The Times and a photograph of Diana.
• Staff reported the items were largely well preserved and noted the hospital lacks a device to play the recovered CD.
• The hospital has removed the capsule from the site and plans to inter a new one beneath the completed oncology centre as part of its remodel.