With Brexit, the election of Donald Trump as US President and scores of celebrity deaths, 2016 has been a year to forget for many people – however the future residents of High Wycombe will one day be able to get a taste of the past as a time capsule is buried under a new housing development.

With the help of pupils from Disraeli School and The Downley School, the capsule was buried under on the site of the 260-home Hughenden Gardens Retirement Village.

The ceremony celebrated construction work at the village, on a five acre site on Hughenden Road, which is due to open in 2018.

Along with the primary school pupils - who were part of the event after winning a painting competition called High Wycombe One Hundred Years from Now - Councillor Zia Ahmed, High Wycombe mayor and future retirement village resident, Yvonne Jack, celebrated the burial of the capsule.

The village will include a village hall, bar and bistro, gym, IT suite, hair and beauty salon and a shop, which can be used by residents, their families and the community.

More than 800 older people have already expressed an interest in the village, which is being built by registered charity, The ExtraCare Charitable Trust, together with Bucks County Council, Wycombe District Council and the Homes and Communities Agency.