REVIVAL TIME CAPSULE REMEMBERS VILLAGE PEOPLE
The opening day of the Southwick Revival 2025 will be marked by a ceremonial
burial of a special time capsule in the grounds of St James Church, Southwick
Village.
Southwick’s Youth Club have been hard at work capturing stories about the people
who live in the village and are excited to take part in a ceremony that will be
attended by the descendants of the wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill,
his grandson, Jack Churchill and great grandson, Alexander Churchill age 10.
The Reverend Simon Brocklehurst, incumbent priest for the Parish of Southwick
Estate leads the village Youth Club; he explained:
“For us adults the Southwick Revival weekend is a relatively new event held since
2014 but for the local children and teenagers this is a feature of village life that has
been there for all of their lives. One teenager told me that he ‘prefers the Revival to
Christmas’!
“Creating a time capsule with the young people has given us a sense of the magic of
the history of Southwick and their unique part in its time line.”
The children have filled the capsule with accounts of their unique experience of their
own village, together with artefacts that are important to their lives now, so that future
generations will have some insight into life in our unique and much-loved village and
its community.”
The ceremony will take place shortly after the flypast by two Spitfires from the Battle
of Britain Memorial Flight at approximately 1320 on Saturday 7th June. The location
will be marked and in some distant decade will be rediscovered ideally by one of the
children who made the capsule long ago to share the memories of his childhood
home.