Publications
Stuck in East Grinstead, by Stan Turner, published December 2012 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 4, article, pp.168-169) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508975] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Until I broke with the tradition, all my researched TURNERs, as our name describes us, had earned their living in the wood trade. At school, woodwork for me was easy. I did all the required exercises to the master's satisfaction and was rewarded with an introduction to the lathe. During one session in the woodwork shop, a Maths master called in to talk to his Woodwork colleague and as he passed me working at the lathe, said "Ah, Turner, practicing your ancestral craft, I see." - and that was many years before I became an addicted family historian