The Story of a Quiet Parish: a hidden gem discovered in the Hampshire Record Office and now published for the enjoyment of Compton & Shawford residents
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Barbara Large MBE, FRSA, FHUW (1932-2019) – remembering Barbara, her contribution to writing and to the community, with details of memorial services
Major Hartley Honeyman: sportsman, founding member and first treasurer of the relaunched Tennis Club in the late 1980s, Parish Magazine production supremo
Sid Russell – Parish Council Chairman, Parish Magazine Editor, and well-known for the village Christmas parties which he began.
Remembrance Sunday 1948 – article reprinted in November 2018 with added biographical details about Sir Brian Horrocks, who took the salute in 1948.
Relph Burn remembers life in the parish and his duties as sexton, verger, bell-ringer and grave-digger, which he took over from his father in 1931.
Barbara Turnbull’s paper about John Summers Drew, a gifted amateur historian now best known locally for his 1939 “Compton, near Winchester”
Ray Wilmshurst: George Beckett, Compton & Shawford Parish Council chairman, recalls Ray’s 57 years of contribution to the community.
Percy Cole: postman, soldier, gardener and long serving Scout leader, remembered by rector William Prescott.
Arthur Malcolm Heathcote – his lifelong interest in acting and the theatre and his inspiration for the Heathcote Players.
John Philpott, Compton’s martyr, Archdeacon of Winchester and fiercely Protestant son of the wealthy Catholic Philpott family. He was imprisoned, interrogated and burned at the stake in December 1555 .
Memories of growing up in Shawford in the 1940s and 50s, the Heathcote Players, pantomimes, and Barbara Clegg’s prolific scriptwriting, by her children.