Marchwood, The Village c.1965

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I have family who lived in a house called Wembley at Marchwood during the war and the family surname was Churchill the family story goes that the daughter called Lizzy was aledged to be a bit simple was left in charge by her mother Kate of younger siblings because the children were bored Lizzy gave the children a box of matches to play with and the thatch caught fire and the house burnt down any truthful information on these events would be gratefully received

I was very lucky to grow up at The Cottage Twiggs lane marchwood , i was Michele Ingram then ! we had a lovely place to grow up and being cut off by the bye pass it was a place where everyone knew each other . The people I grew up around Bundays, Seviers, Smths, Nobles Strides,Dellers, Butts and Longmans to name but a few! My happiest days were playing in the forest , we live on Barker-Mill estate ...see more

I moved to Marchwood in the mid 1960s, I was not very old. We lived in an old house on the edge of the village, called Glengarriff. The old house was pulled down many years ago. I attended Marchwood Primary school. Mr. Smith was the Headmaster. Most of the children who attended the school came from the army quarters. Marchwood was just a village then. People would stand and chat over their ...see more

I do not know Marchwood but I recently found that my father was killed in a motorbike accident on the Southampton Road in Marchwood in 1958.