Overview

• Excavation for a new pediatric oncology unit prompted the box’s opening this week, decades earlier than the century-long wait originally envisioned.
• The ten-item cache includes a Kylie Minogue Rhythm of Love CD, a Casio pocket television, a solar calculator, British coins, tree seeds, a snowflake hologram, a European passport, a photograph of Diana, a copy of The Times, and items such as a comic and a disposable camera.
• Archivists say most objects survived well with some moisture damage, and staff noted they lacked a CD player to hear the Kylie disc.
• The selections were made in 1991 by Blue Peter competition winners Sylvia Foulkes and David Watson working alongside Diana.
• Great Ormond Street Hospital will conserve the finds and assemble a new time capsule for the remodel, with the pediatric oncology center slated to open in 2028.