Whatever your political persuasion and feelings about this week’s election result, historians of Britain will likely come to mark it as the end of one era and the start of the next.
Children of the 2000s were schooled in a very different social and economic landscape, entering adulthood after the 2008 financial crash and with 14 often-turbulent years of Tory rule which may have helped or hindered whatever dreams they harboured in their classroom days.
As we look at their faces through the Derbyshire Times archives, we wonder what became of them, where are they now, and how will the years ahead shape the future of their counterparts in 2024?
25. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
A new laptop for Cavendish Junior School was newsworthy in 2003. Photo: Derbyshire Times
26. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
HRH Prince Edward visits Heage windmill. meeting children from Heage Primary School. Photo: Brian Eyre
27. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
Quality mark presented to pupils of St Giles School, Matlock. Photo: Derbyshire Times
