The new gives way to the old at Aneurin Bevan's birthplace - with a find from 120 years ago.
Aneurin Bevan meets teenager Sylvia Beckingham - the first NHS patient - at a hospital in Manchester in 1948Workers on a new health centre in the birthplace of the NHS have found a time capsule, buried in the foundations of an old hospital built on the same site more than 120 years ago.
It is a far cry from the old hospital, opened in 1904 at a cost of £3,200, and its upkeep paid for by iron and coal workers donating a halfpenny a week from their wages. While it is designed to meet future needs, the new building is rooted in the past, having being built on the old Tredegar hospital site.While digging those foundations, construction workers, following a tip-off from historians, discovered the time capsule under one of four foundation stones.
"What we discovered was that the lead was really tightly bound into the pot. And when they sealed it there was no top on the pot so it was wedged in really tightly," he said.Inside were some newly minted Edward VII coins from 1903 and earlier Victorian ones. "I was born in 1939 and was born with club foot. My parents had to take me to Bristol for treatment. But it was all free because my father was paying into the Medical Aid Society.Visitors to the museum to see the capsule include children from primary schools who are also learning about the NHS's history.Roxy-Mae from St Joseph's RC Primary School was fascinated by the newspapers and coins.
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