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  • Victorian trousers left in personal 'time capsule'

    10/22/2004 7:10:59 PM PDT · by martin_fierro · 15 replies · 756+ views
    AFP/Yahoo ^ | Fri Oct 22, 1:34 PM ET
    Victorian trousers left in personal 'time capsule' Fri Oct 22, 1:34 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - Workers renovating a British theatre have uncovered a personal time capsule left the last time the building was spruced up, containing a letter and, more curiously, a pair of Victorian trousers. The note, written on March 6, 1901 by a man identifying himself as Frank Morrill, requests that the well-used workman's trousers be handed to a museum. The time capsule, also containing some tools, was found behind a ceiling panel this week at the 17th Century Sheldonian Theatre, part of Oxford University, a university...