Kilgraston's history
In 1986, the BBC’s Domesday project asked on million ordinary people to write about their everyday lives. It’s now been digitised, and forms one of the most comprehensive snapshots of a moment in time ever created. People were asked to record what they thought would be of interest in 1,000 years time.
The whole of the UK was divided into 23,000 4x3km areas called Domesday Squares or ‘D-Blocks’.
Schools and community groups surveyed over 108,000 square km of the UK and submitted more than 147,819 pages of text articles and 23,225 amateur photos, cataloguing what it was like to live, work and play in their community.
The entire archive of the Domesday project is fascinating, and well worth exploring - it’s online at www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday. Naturally, though, history is most engaging when it relates to something or someone we know, so it was wonderful to stumble across two entries written by Kilgraston pupils. Much of Kilgraston life will feel very familiar to current pupils, although the uniforms (‘blue nylon overall’) have been updated, and the food (‘a roll and an orange’) is considerably better!
