Pupils bury time capsules for future

Twenty-three children from Grange Primary School in Merseyside were helped by the Balfour Beatty Thornton to Switch Island road bypass project team to preserve their story for the benefit of future generations.

The children placed items from their school curriculum, as well as small toys and notes on their hobbies, into time capsules, and with the support of the project team, buried them in a landscaped area which they had helped to plant.

The initiative was one of a number of ways in which the project team have been working with the local schoolchildren. Other activities Balfour Beatty have organised have included a litter picking project, presentations on environmental issues, providing topsoil for their vegetable gardens, and a project to design their own road.