{"id":62768,"date":"2026-10-15T03:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/sussex-time-capsule-celebrates-100-years-of-winnie-the-pooh\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T03:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:15:34","slug":"sussex-time-capsule-celebrates-100-years-of-winnie-the-pooh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/sussex-time-capsule-celebrates-100-years-of-winnie-the-pooh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex time capsule celebrates 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>A time capsule has been buried at a tea room in East Sussex to mark the 100th anniversary of the first Winnie-the-Pooh book.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pooh Corner in Hartfield said the memento to toast AA Milne&#8217;s classic, first published on 14 October 1926, will be reopened in 100 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The capsule was filled with paraphernalia from across the year of celebrations, which included books, a rare Winnie-the-Pooh teapot, photos and letters to the bear from local schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neil Reed, one of the tea room&#8217;s owners, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m0032cvy\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BBC Radio Sussex<\/a>: &#8220;The strange thing about it is you couldn&#8217;t say &#8216;draw me a Winnie-the-Pooh fan&#8217;, it&#8217;s everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The story, which follows the gentle, honey-loving teddy bear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w3ct98f8\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">modelled after the toy of the author&#8217;s son<\/a>, is set in the fictional Hundred Acre Wood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a setting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g9dzj1xj3o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">inspired by the real-life Ashdown Forest<\/a>, where Milne had a county home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every day there&#8217;s a different person and generation on the forest walking around with their teddy bear, but they&#8217;re all exploring those spots they know from the books,&#8221; Reed said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the tea room, which is also a gift shop and museum, had &#8220;seen people from all over the world&#8221; and been visited more than 250,000 times in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckjwevwvqj8vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A time capsule has been buried at a tea room in East Sussex to mark the 100th anniversary of the first Winnie-the-Pooh book. Pooh Corner in Hartfield said the memento to toast AA Milne&#8217;s classic, first published on 14 October 1926, will be reopened in 100 years. The capsule was filled with paraphernalia from across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5739,2754,4182,2129,17101,380],"class_list":["post-62768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-capsule","tag-celebrates","tag-sussex","tag-time","tag-winniethepooh","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62770,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62768\/revisions\/62770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}