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Butter Cross Time Capsule

Time Capsule Buried, Naturally On A Market Day
Tuesday 30th September 1986 (8:15am)

By Senior Townwarden John Southerington and Junior Townwarden Gilbert M.P. King. 900th Anniversary of Domesday.

Time Capsule sponsored by:-

  • Pedigree Petfoods
  • Shouler and Son
  • Barclays Bank plc
  • Long Clawson Dairy
  • Melton Mowbray Building Society
  • Denken
  • Dry Transfers

The above sponsors names have been engraved on the inside of the lid. Engraved on the outside lid – Melton Mowbray Town Estate Coat of Arms with the wording Melton Mowbray 1986.

The time capsule was sealed using argon gas to preserve the contents and was buried in the foundations, on the site of the original Butter Cross.

Contents:

  • Notes on Melton Mowbray Town Estate by J.E. Brownlow (revised edition)
  • Borough of Melton Official guide (cover painting the town red)
  • Borough of Melton Official guide (cover man falling off horse – Burton Street)
  • Melton Mowbray Parish Church (signed by Rev. Canon D.E.B. Law)
  • Coins – uncirculated coin collection 1986 (with history of coins)
  • Coins – uncirculated 1953 set
  • £1.00 note in mint condition
  • Set of Stamps booklet – “In celebration of the Royal Mail”
  • Leaflet – “Asfordby – a high technology for the 21st century”
  • Book – Leicestershire
  • Book – St. Mary’s Parish Church (a miscellany) by G.M.P. King (signed)
  • 1984 – 125th Edition “Melton Times” Newspaper
  • Cigar
  • Calculator Alarm digital watch
  • East Midland Tourist Board – brochure 1986 “Places of interest in English Shires”
  • Leicestershire – Heart of the Shires – Cream of Leicestershire
  • What is Freemasonry
  • A Visitors Guide to Melton Mowbray – 1981
  • A Visitors Guide to Melton Mowbray – 1982
  • A Visitors Guide to Melton Mowbray – 1986
  • Set of Mint Stamps: - “Arthurian Legend”
  • £4.00 book of stamps and story of Royal Mint
  • Leaflet – Melton Mowbray Town Estate Tennis Centre
  • Town Estate report and accounts 1985
  • Book – “The Story of Melton Mowbray” by Philip E. Hunt (signed)
  • Town Estate Tea spoon
  • Town Estate Tea towel
  • History of Community Programme including 20 photographs