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Margaret’s Snooker Hall in Sandown was being demolished when contractors found the historical time capsule dating back to the end of the last century. While digging through the time capsule, they made an “amazing” secret discovery. In the capsule they found copies of old newspapers from 1872 with details about Isle of Wight.
The glass jar also contained mementos from 1872 with copies of the Isle of Wight Chronicle dating back almost 150 years.
The oldest paper dated back to August 1, 1872 and cost just three and a half pence at the time.
Also inside the time capsule was a string of businesses in the trade announcements such as J Duff & Son’s bathing machine proprietors, G Brown the Pharmaceutical Chemist and Geo Pelley’s post horse service.
Upon discovering the time capsule, Maisie Harrison, of Harrison Contractors Ltd, said: “An amazing find in Sandown this week.
“A time capsule containing Isle of Wight newspapers dating back to 1872.
“We’re currently looking after this item, if anyone has any suggestions for a new home please let us know.”
Tim Meaney, a local resident, said he was inspired by the time capsule and suggested: “Adding to the capsule and re-hiding it for a future generation to find.”
Harrison Contractors Ltd were called in to refurbish the club after it was closed three years ago.
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However, time capsule historian William Jarvis said most intentional time capsules usually do not provide much useful historical information: they are typically filled with ‘useless junk’, new and pristine in condition, that tells little about the people of the time.
Many time capsules today contain only artifacts of limited value to future historians.
Historians suggest that items that describe the daily lives of the people who created them, such as personal notes, pictures, videos and documents, would greatly increase the value of the time capsule to future historians.
Historians also concede that there are many preservation issues surrounding the selection of the media to transmit this information to the future.
Some of these issues include the obsolescence of technology and the deterioration of electronic and magnetic storage media (known as the digital dark age), and possible language problems if the capsule is dug up in the distant future.
Many buried time capsules are lost, as interest in them fades and the exact location is forgotten, or they are destroyed within a few years by groundwater.
The International Time Capsule Society was created in 1990 to maintain a global database of all known time capsules.
The Not Forgotten Digital Preservation Library maintains a current map and register of domestic and commercial time capsules.
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