We're making a time capsule. This is a box of things to bury which would tell people in the future how we live today.
Here is a picture of a Roman pot.
It was broken so we had to put the pieces together a bit like a jigsaw. Many things found that have been left in the ground for many years get broken or decay over time. It is the job of an archeologist to dig these up and interpret them so that we can understand how ordinary people used to live.
We talked about how people lived in the time of the railway children and how things have changed over time with inventions like the mobile phone and the motor car.
Here are some pictures of things which were different in Edwardian England (around 1905 when the novel the Railway Children was written):
There were no cars. People travelled by horse drawn carriages.
People used gas lamps and candles for light and styles of clothing were very different. People wore formal hats.
People travelled by train. These were very much slower than they are today, especially the TGV! They were known as steam trains. Coal fires were used to heat pressurised water to make steam.
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