These items will be among a number of other contemporary curiosities that will go into a time capsule and buried in Lambton on Saturday, October 20, replacing one that went into the ground during the Great War a century ago.

“Thank you for putting that time capsule in the ground a long time ago and another one this Saturday,” said Mia, who may well live to address the 22^nd century event to unearth the capsule being buried this weekend.

While 140 Lambton men were off fighting during WWI a number of their wives, mothers and sisters formed the Lambton Ladies Committee to raise money and pay for Lambton Park's Memorial Gates.

Their makeshift time capsule, buried in a bottle beneath the gates a few weeks before the armistice, is the only such WWI commemoration in Australia.

When recently unearthed, a newspaper reporting the declaration of war and decaying pennies were found inside.

The 100-year-old bottle was painstakingly dug up - and the new time capsule prepared - to officially salute the 30 visionary women who together mourned 27 Lambton men who did not return from the war.

A new capsule will be buried at Lambton Park on Saturday.

“Saturday’s event will be a community celebration of a resilient group of women with enough spirit and foresight to leave us a link to that disastrous time for the world and the defining event of their lives,” Newcastle Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said.

“Everyone in the Hunter is invited to turn out to be part of an important piece of local history.”

City of Newcastle councillors unanimously resolved to help excavate and replace the time capsule.

The council supported the project with about $60,000 in funds and in-kind support.

Cr Nelmes will attend Saturday’s event at Lambton with ward three councillors Andrea Rufo, Declan Clausen, Peta Winney-Baartz.

Descendants of the Ladies Committee will attend the celebration together with Sydney man John Estell.

He will bring the engraved golden trowel his great grandfather, then the local state member, used to lay the foundation stone.

Children, Mia among them, will also be there after receiving commemorative medallions from Hunter Development Corporation to encourage them to return in 2118.

The centenarians will then be charged with explaining the contents of the second time capsule, which was built with 21^st century smarts, including high-grade stainless steel and an air filter.

“Once closed and sealed, inert argon gas will be pumped into the 26-litre box through one of two valves to avoid mould and oxidation,” City of Newcastle heritage specialist Tom Smith said. “The other one will be used to expel any impure air.”

Lambton community historian Robert Watson said archaeologists, volunteers and a stone mason recently took around nine hours to exhume the old time capsule.

“The whole excavation was a painstaking process because underneath the foundation stone was solid a block on concrete with the glass bottle inside,” he said.

“The rolled-up newspaper was pretty damp and in a bad state of decay and we could barely read anything on a penny because of the corrosion.”