Name | Era | Job |
Billy Chaddock (Little Bill) | Conductor | |
Frankie Holdcroft | Supposedly the first Conductor Sam Employed. | Conductor |
Fanny Holdcroft | Not Employed but had Vital Role! | Made Tea For drivers |
Alfie Morgan | conductor | |
Billy Schofield | Driver | |
Maurice Austin | Driver | |
Joe Berrisford | ||
Lenny Lovatt | conductor | |
Stan Brown | Driver | |
Dennis Morris | conductor | |
Peggy Sheldon | conductor | |
Bob Cumberlidge | Worked Garage Shift after Sid Shaw | |
Sid Shaw | Driver on Garage Shift | |
Frankie Frost | Driver | |
Jack Sutton | conductor | |
Bill Snape | conductor | |
Tony Pomelli | Driver | |
Graham Salt | Driver | |
Charlie Lutas | Driver | |
Bill Wood | Driver | |
Freddie Willott | Part Time Driver | |
Neville Cunliffe | Driver | |
Terry Rule | Driver | |
Bernard | Driver | |
Graham Adams | Driver |
This is a work in progress.
Almost every member of the famillies helped out at various times and in many ways not recorded here. Regular family staff were
Name | Relation | What They Did |
Gordon Turner Snr | Son | Driver, Mechanic, did everything really but came into his own on coach outings. |
Edwin Turner | Son | Driver – Mechanic. Did the Wages untill 1970 |
Olwyn Snape | Daughter | Conducted (especially during the war years) and worked in the office after 1974 after Roy Turner died |
Allan Turner | Son | Driver and garage duties started to do office work in late 60’s. Always did the signwriting. |
Roy Turner | Son | Always lived at the Garage.Was born and died there.Was a conductor and a qualified mechanic (Associated Buses).He also counted all the money and cashed up on a Sunday morning. |
Gordon Turner | Son of Gordon Turner Snr | First Grandson to work officially for businessStarted conducting, working in the garage and then driving. Worked for PMT after the takeover |
Russel Turner | Son of Gordon Turner Snr | Conducted especially while off from University |
Stephen Turner | Son Of Edwin Turner | Garage work Worked for PMT after the takeover |
Peter Roy Turner | Son Of Roy Turner | Garage work, cleaning as a boy then occasionally conducting when 16 (without badge) badged at 18 and conducted most Saturdays and Bank Holidays untill 24 then occasionally as needed |
Geoffrey Allan Turner | Son of Allan Turner | Conducted the Mill Girls Bus before School and during Holidays |
My wife’s father Dennis Bourne was a driver in the early 1950s my future wife Jennifer lived on High Lane at that time. When I drove for Turners was 1965 to 68 and 1974 75 and part time in between, in my second period after Roy’s death I did the weekly vehicle inspections Leek mill girl and Clayton High School runs morning and evening.
I hope you find this informative Graham Salt
Hi Graham
Hope you are well. Thanks for commenting, I remember you very well. Can you remember some of the other staff members we had?
Pete
Hi Pete
I remember Ivan Derricott and Alan Goldstraw , Alan did not stay long. I am not sure how long Ivan worked for Turners, if I remember anyone else will be in touch.
Regards Graham S
I think “Billy Chaddock” was actually Billy Chadwick, the brother of my uncle, John Oliver Chadwick. I remember as a child travelling with my Aunty Kathleen, John Oliver’s wife, on Turner’s Buses when Billy was in attendance.
I be leave Allan Goldstraw also drove for Turners Buses
Hi, does anyone remember my father Leonard or Lenny Griffiths?
I was told he was a conductor on Turners buses in the 1960s.
dads russel t
another conductor was bill tomkinson lived in heaths row now church road