A brief moment in time was recorded on Friday 17th July when around thirty school children from Castleton County Primary School, ably assisted by Abbeyfield President Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, and accompanied by the school’s Samba Band, buried a Time Capsule in the grounds of Abbeyfield Esk Moors Lodge Bradbury Centre in Castleton.
Helped by the Abbeyfield Esk Moors Committee and Headmistress Jane Douglas, the children have collected lots of information about the lifestyle and residents of Castleton in 2009 for future generations to come.
The Time Capsule also marks the opening of Abbeyfield Esk Moors and the Bradbury Centre which houses twelve self contained one and two bedroom flats for older people, a care service both for residents and older people across the Upper Esk Moors Valley and a thriving social centre providing facilities and events for everyone in the area.
Baroness Bottomley said she was thrilled to see Abbeyfield Esk Moors Lodge Bradbury Centre and all the residents, staff, committee members, local children and adults. “It is a superb example of what a community pulling together can do, creating much needed facilities, not only for elderly people but for everyone in the Upper Esk Moors Valley. The children, their excitement with the time capsule, and everyone’s happy faces, say it all.”