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Number 355 – November 2019 Village Website: www.compton-surrey.co.uk PUBLISHED BY COMPTON VILLAGE ASSOCIATION Editor: Jane Turner, Inwood House, Hog’s Back, Farnham, GU10 1HE Telephone: 01483 810789. 07763 146448. Email: [email protected]

   PARISH COUNCIL    COMPTON PARISH COUNCIL IN THE HIGH COURT. Earlier this year, immediately before the local elections, Borough Council adopted a new Local Plan, setting out its aspirations for housing, development and other areas of local government. This plan included a proposal to build 1,800 homes on the Blackwell Farm site, much of which lies within Compton Parish and all of which is within the Metropolitan Green Belt. Compton Parish Council, after consulting through public meetings, resolved to challenge this Plan, the basis for the housing numbers, the way the inspector conducted the hearings and the manner in which it was adopted by GBC. Our advice was that the dwelling numbers (at 37% above the Council's own objective assessment of housing need) could not be justified, and the extra road traffic generated would be enormously harmful to Compton village. Our challenge, together with the challenges from two other parties, will be heard at the Law Courts in the Strand, London on Tuesday 5th, Wednesday 6th & Thursday 7th November, as a Section 113 Challenge. The hearing will be open to the public from 10.30am to 4.30pm. You are very welcome to attend and support our legal team. Mobile phones are permitted in the courtroom but you are warned that if they go off, you are liable to be in Contempt of Court so it is important to keep all devices on silent!

BE ALERT! Following a recent burglary near Spiceall, it has become apparent that the perpetrators were watching the property from a car parked close by for some time before they broke in. This behaviour has been seen elsewhere in the parish, so we ask everyone to be alert to people sitting in a car without apparent purpose, and to take a note of the number plate if you are at all suspicious.

SAVE HOGS BACK APPEAL To date, the SAVE HOGS BACK appeal has raised £6,270 towards Compton Parish Council’s legal challenge, with a further £2,760 raised in cheques/PayPal payments, and an anonymous pledge of £1,700. Save Hogs Back has already exceeded its initial target of £10,000, but this is just as well given the escalating legal costs that have been created by Guildford Borough Council inviting four developers to take part in the legal proceedings too. Not only has Compton’s QC had to deal with six sets of separate detailed grounds of resistance (from GBC, the Government and four developers) but the developers have pushed for a doubling of the number of days in Court. Save Hogs Back originally embarked on the fundraising campaign so that the Parish Council would be exposed to less financial risk in the event that it lost its legal challenge, but these extra funds have turned out to be much needed. If you wish to make a donation to support the Appeal, go to www.savehogsback.co.uk. Alternatively, you can transfer directly to the Appeal’s bank account: Sort code 20 35 35, Account 33669742, or send a cheque, payable to “Save Hogs Back” to the Treasurer, Neville Bryan, 3 Frog Grove Lane, , Guildford GU3 3EY.

Jean Miller held another very successful MACMILLAN THE SHOP is recruiting a FRONT OF COFFEE MORNING in the Old Barn on OUSE SSISTANT H A for alternate weekend work (both Saturday th and Sunday). This is a permanent position with varied hours 27 September, raising a handsome £1,150 - a fantastic and paid at the hourly rate of £9.09. Applications should be result. Jean would like to thank everyone who sent to Alice Offer, Retail & Admissions Manager, at provided cakes, raffle prizes and gave donations for [email protected] by Tuesday 12th November. the occasion, and particularly those who came along Interviews will be held on Tuesday 19th November. The job and gave their support, dodging the showers which description can be found under Careers on came and went! In turn, THANK YOU Jean for your www.wattsgallery.org.uk. hard work in making the event such a success, for this truly worthwhile cause.

   BARGAIN BASEMENT    Sony Micro Hi-Fi Radio, CD and Cassette Player with speakers and remote. Full working order and very good condition. A snip at £45! Call Margaret on 01483 414989.

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 GUILDFORD ART SOCIETY 2019 AUTUMN EXHIBITION. Place, Epsom Road KT24 6AN. Saturday 2nd November, 12 noon to 4pm, Sunday 3rd to Sunday 10th, 10am to 4pm. The exhibition will take place in the beautiful ground floor formal rooms of the Manor House. Guildford Art Society was founded in 1926 and has a current membership of 251 artists, practising and non-practising, amateur and professional. All works are for sale. Free entry and free parking!  CHRISTMAS CRAFTS & CHRISTMAS SONGS. IN ACCORD, a ladies A Capella singing group who rehearse in Compton Village Hall, are planning a Christmas Craft Sale accompanied by some singing on Thursday 14th November in the Village Hall between 6pm and 8pm, before one of their regular rehearsals. Everyone is warmly invited to join them for a festive evening of songs and sales. Mulled wine and mince pies will be on offer so do come and browse unique hand-made creations by Diana Burton Glass Art and Upsy Daisy up cycled denim and other quirky items!  LOSELEY HOUSE CHRISTMAS FAIR in the Tithe Barn and Special Pavilions. Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th, 9am to 5pm, and Sunday 17th November, 9am to 4pm. Talented makers and designers from across the UK offer a unique opportunity to find special presents for special people. Stunning fashions and accessories, leather bags and belts, dazzling jewellery, scarves in lustrous velvets and satins, luxurious soaps and skincare. Decorate your home with elegant candles, platters and bowls. Visit the Specialist Food area which is brimming with scrumptious cheeses and meats, and wines. Pleasurable Christmas shopping. FREE easy parking, coffee shops, wide aisles with easy access for wheelchairs and pushchairs. Tickets on the day: £5.50 Adults, £5 Seniors, £5 Students, Children FREE.  NORNEY CREATIVE ARTS GROUP are holding their biennial exhibition in Village Hall on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November, between 10am and 4pm. Many works will be on display from this talented local group. Refreshments available. Entry FREE.  BLACKHEATH AND BRAMLEY CHORAL SOCIETY will be performing Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle on Saturday 30th November at 7.30pm in Holy Trinity Church, Guildford. Conductor David Condry, with Stephen Westrop on piano and Seb Gillot on Harmonium. Eleanor Gregory soprano, Helena Condry alto, Graham Neal tenor and Edward Grint bass. Tickets £15 (£8 students) available from Choir Members, the Box Office on [email protected] or Guildford Tourist Information Centre on 01483 444344.  CHRISTMAS CRACKER 2019 on Friday 6th December from 7pm for a prompt start at 7.30pm at Chimneys, Lower Moushill Lane, Milford (by kind permission of Baroness Bottomley). Festive family entertainment including Musicians, Readers, Singers, Mini-Pantomime. Tickets £20, to include mulled wine, mince pies and free raffle ticket, available from Jennifer Leigh, Manor Cottage, Lower Moushill Lane, Godalming GU8 5EA. 01483 420025 or [email protected]. Organised by South West Surrey Conservative Association, Milford Branch.  CINDERELLA, The Fairy Godmother of all Pantomimes! Directed by Denise Hodgkiss and performed by GODALMING THEATRE GROUP. Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th, Thursday 19th to Sunday 22nd December. Tickets £12.50, Students £10. Book online at www.gtguk.com or call 07402 484484 (a £1 booking fee per transaction applies to telephone bookings).

COMPTON LITTLE THEATRE’S 2020 Pantomime is DICK WHITTINGTON. The original script, by Julie Petrucci & Chris Shinn, has been adapted by Fred Pollard & Frazer Woodhams, who will also direct. London is in the hands of the nefarious Queen Rat (Amy Aiello) as ravenous rodents run riot in the streets, leaving the tired citizens desperate for someone to solve their pest problems. Sweetshop owner Alderman Fitzwarren (Stephen Pugh) has run out of options until an unlikely hero arrives in the form of young fortune- seeker Dick Whittington (Eleanor Selby), fresh-faced and eager to make something of his life. Despite the best efforts of the devious Queen Rat, Dick and his furry feline Tommy (Luke Bevan) work together with their new friends to save the day and embark on an adventure to find the thieving villain which will take them all the way to the exotic island of Mycoco. Come and join Dick on his tremendous adventure, full to the brim with side-splitting jokes, marvellous musical numbers and fun for all the family. Make room in your diaries now for what will surely be the highlight of your new year! Performances will be every evening at 8pm on Thursday 16th, Friday 17th and Saturday 18th January, with a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. Tickets are £10 per person and are available now at www.ticketsource.co.uk/clt.

ST NICHOLAS CHURCH, COMPTON - SERVICES FOR NOVEMBER SATURDAY 2nd – 8am Holy Communion, Watts Chapel SUNDAY 3rd – 10.30am Sung Holy Communion SUNDAY 10th – 8am Holy Communion (1662); 10.15am Remembrance Service, followed by Commemoration at the War Memorial at 11am SUNDAY 17th – 10.30am Sung Holy Communion WEDNESDAY 20th – 10.30am Said Communion    THIS AND THAT    - 3 -

 The next SUPPER CLUB in the Compton Club is on Friday 22nd November, serving from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. The cost is still a very modest £7.50 per person for Fish and Chips or Sausage and Chips and Dessert. Dietary requirements are catered for. Sign up at the Club or email Jo Ayshford on [email protected] or the Club on [email protected]. Make sure you indicate any special diets.  GUILDFORD & GODALMING CATS PROTECTION CHRISTMAS FAIR will be held on Saturday 16th November from 11.30am to 3.30pm in Milford Village Hall. Come along and buy your CP Christmas cards, calendars, cat toys, etc. There will be cat beds and carriers, books, bric-a-brac, raffle and tombola. And to keep you going, home-made mince pies and their renowned bacon butties!  CARDS FOR GOOD CAUSES at Godalming Museum, available until Saturday 21st December. Sales benefit national and local charities, including Chase, GUTS and the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice. For every pound spent, at least 70p goes to the charity.  Most people are aware that Compo does a weekly shopping run on Tuesdays to Godalming from 9.30am, drop off at Sainsbury’s, the High Street and Waitrose, returning at approximately 12 noon and delivering you to your door. Senior Bus Pass holders travel free. £3.50 single fare for others. Just phone Margaret Benwell on 810791 if you want to use this. But you may not know that Compo is also available for private hire for groups or individuals for special occasions. This can be booked through Lauren Hall at Watts Gallery on 01483 813580, Tuesday to Saturday, who will be able to give you availability and prices.

REVIEW OF CLT’S DINNER & DRAMA GHOST WRITER As ever, a particularly friendly welcome was extended, and in the case of CLT’s dinner/drama events, a superbly professional organisation of the evening, with excellent service, no time lags, and delicious fare! This time, we had a 1970s meal, as the play is set in the 1970s. The fine set was very nostalgic for some of us – we were transported back to the 1970s with large, bold, patterned wallpaper, spider plants, crocheted bedspread, tea chests, the lot! A good townscape scene behind the French windows, which would open scarily to allow Ruby’s entrance. A marvellous cupboard full of Gordon’s gin bottles – every home should have one! – and various of these bottles were constantly in use. The pièce de resistance, of course, was the typewriter, working away autonomously, quickly completing Edward’s new play while he slept! Of course, a ghost story must be every lighting person’s dream, and the lighting here was put to good use to add to the atmosphere. Costumes were fun - elegant flares, and fitted shirts for Alex, scruffy 70s T-Shirts and flared jeans for Edward, our despairing playwright. Flowery, flowing dresses for the terribly bashful Glenda, all added to our nostalgia. The play opened to the dramatic view of a suicidal Edward pointing a gun to his head and quoting lines from Hamlet. Just about to pull the trigger, his intentions are thwarted by the bursting in of his friend and landlord Alex, who proceeds to inform him that the gun is only a stage prop. Edward, played with suitably ‘head in hands’ doom and gloom by Olly Clifford, retires to bed, only to receive a nocturnal visitation, the first of many, from his departed wife, Ruby, played with great indignation by Rachel Jenner. How dare people think she would have died so carelessly from a drinks/drugs overdose! Alex has set Edward up with an unwelcome Blind Date with the hapless, shy and retiring Glenda (Mandy Scully), much to the fury of Ruby. JP Judson makes a fine Alex, appearing to be really concerned for Edward, whilst also being slightly frustrated by the latter’s ‘writer’s block’ phase and consequent lack of money to pay the rent. Alex is gay, but Judson doesn’t overdo the camp, playing it just right, in my opinion, and getting lots of good laughs. Some of the ‘gay’ jokes though do seem rather out of date now in 2019 (the play dates from 2002), and there were rather a lot of them. A plot is hatched for Edward to create a play recreating the fateful party at which Ruby was discovered dead, the cast being the same people as were present at said party, the aim being to reveal the murderer. This play is written overnight by ‘the ghost writer’ on Edward’s typewriter as he sleeps – excellent work, whichever technical wizard set this up! The party guests arrive, so does Ruby, so does Glenda. The pace of action quickens, the jokes come thick and fast, the gin flows, (from the bottle – plenty of those in that cupboard!), Glenda and others get drunk and it all gets a bit chaotic. I think a murderer was found, I know a toupée was lost. The second part of the second half all passed by in a flash! A good fun evening. Pauline Surrey, NODA representative, South East Region

JAZZ @ THE PAVILION ELECTRIC THEATRE JAZZ CAFÉ VASILIS XENOPOULOS STUART HENDERSON - “100 YEARS OF JAZZ TRUMPET” Wednesday 13th November Tuesday 26th November Greek sax star Vasilis Xenopoulos will A hundred year journey through the lives and music of the great jazz trumpet perform the music of one of his musical players, including Louis Armstrong, Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet heroes, Dexter Gordon. Baker, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis and more… Featuring trumpeter Stuart Henderson, formerly principal trumpet of The Scots Guards Band and now Guildford Rugby Club. Doors open 7.30pm. playing on the UK jazz scene. Music from 8pm. Tickets £16, £14 for members, from www.guildfordjazz.org.uk. Music at 7.30pm. Tickets £16, £14 for members, from The Electric Theatre Box Office on 01483 501200. - 4 -

WATTS GALLERY NEWS  WILLIAM ORPEN: METHOD & MASTERY is the next exhibition in Watts Gallery which will run from Tuesday 19th November to Sunday 23rd February 2020. Celebrated for his career as an official war artist, the Irish-born painter Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) is best known for his rapid and expressive painting style. President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters from 1924 to 1930, Orpen became one of the leading portraitists of his age. Featuring a selection of striking portraits alongside closely observed pencil studies and anatomical drawings, this exhibition provides new insights into Orpen’s evolving and innovative artistic process. FREE with admission. Friends and Under 18s FREE.  The new exhibition in the Watts Contemporary Gallery, IN PRINT – CAPTURING LIGHT, is now open and runs until Sunday 5th January. It brings together ten leading contemporary artists to explore how light and shadow are captured through diverse printmaking techniques. Over 50 original prints are displayed and all works are for sale. A wonderful opportunity for that special Christmas present – or just treat yourself! Admission FREE.

ELTIC HRISTMAS EEKEND th RMISTICE AY th C C W - Saturday 30 November & A D - Sunday 10 November, 11am. st Join us for two minutes silence in the Isabel Sunday 1 December. Goldsmith-Patiño Gallery to reflect on the Inspired by the Celtic crafts of Mary Watts, create an array of cessation of hostilities 101 years after the First seasonal crafts and decorations to take home with you. World War. Make a sustainable winter wreath from fabric and ribbon, and design a set of mini crackers using beautiful papers and Drop in to WATTS CHAPEL between 12 noon and thread. Create your own tartan printed wrapping paper and 3pm to hear the FAYRFAX CONSORT perform commemorative music by composers including ice a delicious shortbread snowflake. Tomás Luis de Victoria, Maurice Duruflé, Start your Christmas shopping with unique gifts and stocking Thomas Tallis and Alonso Lobo. fillers from the Shop and their Makers’ Market, which features a host of local artists and producers selling original FELTED POPPIES. Drop in to the Clore Learning Studio at Limnerslease between 12 noon and artisan gifts. Little ones will have the opportunity to meet 4pm to make felted Remembrance Poppies. Father Christmas, hear stories and songs. Adults £13, Friends £6.50, Under 18s Free.

For information about events and to book tickets, phone 01483 813593 or visit www.wattsgallery.org.uk

DIARY DATES FOR NOVEMBER • TUESDAYS – ARTClass with Ronnie Ireland, Thurs 14th-Sun 17th – Loseley House Christmas Fair, Compton Village Hall, 10am-12.30pm 9am-5pm/4pm th • THURSDAYS – Art Classes with David Crick, The Old Sat 16 – Cats Protection Christmas Fair, Milford Barn, 10am-12 noon. Village Hall, 11.30am-3.30pm Wed 20th – Tower Café, Puttenham Church, Sat 2nd – Puttenham Bonfire & BBQ, Jubilee Field, 2.30pm-4.30pm Puttenham, from 6pm. Fireworks at 7.15pm th Wed 6th – Tower Café, Puttenham Church, Wed 20 – Parish Council Meeting, Puck’s Oak Barn, 7pm 2.30pm-4.30pm th Sun 10th – Remembrance Sunday. St Nicholas Wed 20 – Deadline for the December NEWS Tues 19th – Bell Ringing Practice, Puttenham, 8pm Church service 10.15am, War Memorial Fri 22nd – Supper Club, Compton Club, 6.30pm-8.30pm Commemoration 11am Sat 23rd – Bingo, Compton Club, 7.30pm for 8pm Tues 12th – Bell Ringing Practice, Compton, 8pm Sat 23rd & Sun 24th – Norney Creative Arts Group Wed 13th – Jazz @ The Pavilion, Guildford Rugby exhibition, Shackleford Village Hall, 10am-4pm Club, 7.30pm Mon 25th – Coffee Morning, Old Barn, 10am Sat 9th – Bingo, Compton Club, 7.30pm for 8pm Tues 26th – Electric Theatre Jazz Café, 7.30pm Sun 19th – Armistice Day Sat 30th –Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle, Holy Trinity Mon 11th – Coffee Morning, Old Barn, 10am Church, 7.30pm Thurs 14th – In Accord Christmas Crafts & Christmas Sat 30th & Sun 1st December – Celtic Christmas Songs, Compton Village Hall, 6pm-8pm. Weekend, Watts Gallery

The Phone Box has a distinctly spooky Halloween look, inside and out! Another masterpiece of imagination and skill to delight us all. Thank you!