22/07/10 - Capsule Buried Under Sandyford Fire Station

Paul Clarke, Director at Thomas Vale, added: “At Thomas Vale, we are strongly committed to helping the local community through our construction projects.

“It’s great to see so many young people benefiting – not just through a range of exciting learning opportunities throughout the duration of the project but also in the future, through the use of the new community rooms within the fire station.”

This has been an important and exciting event for the children – the future generation of Stafford – as it has helped them to understand more about topics such as the fire service and construction.

Deputy Chairman of the Fire and Rescue Authority, Cllr Ross Irving said: “I think this time capsule is wonderful idea and thanks must go to all those people who have contributed items.

“It’s a very exciting time for the fire and rescue service and the local people who will benefit from this new community fire station when it opens later in the year.”

Over the last month children from the school have been preparing material for the time capsule, which includes; traditional pottery, CD’s complete with photographs of the school children and some of their recent work, a copy of the Sentinel newspaper, station registers which show information about fire calls and also an accident book from the 1950’s taken from Hanley Fire Station.

Stoke on Trent Assistant Area Commander, Glynn Luznyj commented: “The idea of a time capsule was developed at our first community station at Rising Brook in Stafford and the decision has been taken to roll this out to all the new fire stations being built.

The time capsule into the hole so that in years to come, should the time capsule be excavated, a future generation of young people can get a snapshot of what life was like in 2010.