PUPILS of Dunster First School have delivered three ‘time capsules’ back to the village’s Dunster Castle. 

One capsule had been put together in 1999, a second dated to 2010, while the third was ‘bang up to date’.

The pupils explored the earlier two capsules in a school assembly and saw there were some attendance registers from 1999.

Some of the children found the names of their mothers and fathers in the registers and they all enjoyed finding out what was still the same and what had changed since 1999.

Items in the newest ‘time capsule’ included the official class photographs from this school year, along with pictures of toys which were popular, an old iPad, and photographs of the men’s and women’s England football and rugby teams.

The project was led by a team of historians made up of children from each year group in school.

The historians made the short trip to Dunster Castle with Mrs Ruth Thrush and Miss Louise Collins to hand back the ‘time capsules’.

The capsules will be stored safely under lock and key in the castle’s muniment room, which is a storage space for the preservation of family and parochial records and manuscripts accumulated across the centuries.

The keys to the ‘time capsules’ were handed over to the castle’s events programming and partnerships manager Barney Kenny.

A school spokesperson said: “In the future, the school community will be able to take another peek back in time and maybe they will add more items - what will the future hold?”