Do you remember 1986?

In 1986, 900 years after William the Conqueror’s original Domesday Book, the BBC published the Domesday Project. The project was probably the most ambitious attempt ever to capture the essence of life in the United Kingdom. Over a million people contributed to this digital snapshot of the country.

People were asked to record what they thought would be of interest in another 1000 years.

Here are some extracts from Tenbury (which I believe were written by Children from the Primary School)

Tenbury Market

No animal has ever escaped from the market on to the road but they have escaped on to the car park. Tenbury Market doesn't sell wool because it is illegal, the wool is sold at Bromyard Wool Marketing Board. Tenbury has been altered and is the first market in the West Midlands to have a Cattle weighbridge,a built in selling ring and the pens renewed and they have had a new fruit selling ring recently.

Tenbury Factories

In Tenbury there are five factories :Bedfords, Wells Drinks, Richard Lloyds, Margetts and Spencers. We telephoned to ask how many people they employ. We found out that
Bedfords employ 20 people, they make clock faces and dials.
Wells Drinks employ about 300 people,they make fizzy drinks and squash.
Spencers employ about 100 people they make parts for bicycles.
Margetts employ about 230, they make jams and pie fillings.
Richard Lloyds employ about 250 people. They make serrated blades and indexible insert milling cutters and high speed steel ground thread taps.

Where Dads Work (No mention of Mums!)

A school survey showed: 10 Dads are Council Workers,53 Factory Workers, 37 Farmers or Farm Workers,1 Game Keeper, 27 Engineers, 2 Barmen, 2 Bankworkers, 1 Fireman, 3 Policemen, 1 Doctor 1 Teacher, 7 Shopworkers, 5 Electricians, 10 Builders, 72 Other jobs and Unemployed, 54 Dads work out of Tenbury and 119 in Tenbury.

Some things never change!

In about two years time Tenbury Council are going to build a sports hall on the Palmers Meadow.They are going to build it either on to the swimming pool wall or in line with it.Some of the sports they are going to have are five aside football and hockey one tennis court and three badminton courts, volleyball and trampolining. They are going to get money to build this from jumble sales, fetes,discos,the carnivals and other functions.On the Burgage they are going to change the grass tennis courts to hard courts.

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