REME and The Turners’ Company
“Craftsmen of the Army” – the Story of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, tells how the Corps’ earliest roots reach far down into military history. As craft developed in support of military operations the Army travelled with Armourers and Smiths, Bowyers and Fletchers, Farriers, Loriners and Saddlers, Carpenters and Wheelwrights – and Turners.
The Turners and the Navy
James I of England and James VI of Scotland Even though much has been written about the Worshipful Company of Turners since its award of a Royal Charter by King James I in 1604, much less is known about its earlier history as a Guild, and as the Old Turners’
Henry Llewelyn Howell and the Turners’ Company
Henry Howell was born in 1851 and raised in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire (now Powys), where the Howell family is famous. He left Wales, was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, became a lawyer, lived in London, was Official Receiver at the Board of Trade, an inventor and a fine amateur turner. He
Liveryman Dame Fiona Woolf – my year as Lord Mayor
To be made an Honorary Liveryman of the Turners’ Company, after the excitement of opening Wizardry in Wood in 2012 and presenting awards, could not have flattered and touched me more!
Marriages are made in Bond Street, by Penrose Halson
In April 1939 Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, aged 24, opened the first ever Marriage Bureau in Bond Street. Past Master Penrose Halson uncovers the fascinating true stories from the Bureau in her book, ‘Marriages are made in Bond Street, published by Macmillan, and available to buy in shops and online.
A fisherman’s tale
“God did never make a more calm, quiet and innocent recreation than angling”— so wrote Izaak Walton in his book The Compleat Angler, first written in 1653 and expanded many times up to his death in 1683. It is the most frequently reprinted book in the English language other