Percy Cole: postman, soldier, gardener and long serving Scout leader, remembered by rector William Prescott.
Open meeting for anyone interested in local history, with an update on the website and the scouts' history project. Come along and help us choose which topics to focus on.
Arthur Malcolm Heathcote - his lifelong interest in acting and the theatre and his inspiration for the Heathcote Players.
Photos and descriptions of All Saints Compton Stained Glass Windows, with notes about their history and the glassmaker (where known).
About two local architects who gave their services to the 1905 extension of Compton Church, and who each had a more eminent father.
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.
