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Turners Ice Cream by Philip Marper
Here is a little more  Mosborough history to do with my grandfather, H W Turner and Great Grandfather William Turner,  the Ice Cream Manufacture.

Think of Ice Cream in Mosborough and one thinks of  Turner's. The Business was started in 1918 by William Turner, known to all as "Lucky Bill . This happened by chance in the following way.

Bill was employed at the colliery and he had a passion for horse racing.  He used to go every Wednesday, until the colliery foreman found out that bill was planning to have the following  Wednesday off.  The Foreman threatened Bill with the sack upon which he immediately resigned and started his ice cream business the very next day with a pony and trap and two ice cream tubs.

These old photos show the transport owned by Turners from 1922 to 1950.


 


To this day "Lucky Bill's" Great Grandson Howard Turner still sells ice cream.

In the early miners strikes the Turners gave every child one ice cream.

Lucky Bill was also responsible for buying a plot of land known as the "rec" (Recreation Ground) for the people of Mosborough to grow food in the war and later was put in to trust and became the Mosborough Miners Welfare.
Station Road Mosborough and still in trust to this day for the people of Mosborough.

Philip Marper.. lucky bills great grandson