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.
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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.
James Wedderburn, Rector of Compton 1626-1636, later Bishop of Dunblane, excommunicated for his part in the "too popish" Scottish Book of Common Prayer.
Memories of life as a 7-year old wartime evacuee, sent on 1 September 1939 from a modest home in Portsmouth to a huge house in Southdown Road.
Diana Fawkes, linguist, athlete, code-breaker, cathedral guide and wife of George Fawkes, rector of Compton from 1958 to 1973, has died aged 103.
Philip Barrett, cleric, church musician, church historian, church lawyer and cricket fan. Rector of Compton & Otterbourne 1978-1998.
