South Yorkshire Times and Express, September 1st, 1951
Alban Turner
Alban Turner of Goldthorpe (or should it be Hickleton?) whose death this week has removed another famous South Yorkshire sporting personality from the contemporary scene, belonged to that era when Yorkshire Council cricket was a cricket league of “names”. The battles of Turner’s day were tense battles indeed.
Hickleton have always had an attractive side, and for so many years a particularly strong one, and Alban belonged to a long period when Hickleton were an even greater power to be reckoned with than in more recent years – when Freddie Brown, later to become England’s skipper, Tommy Mitchell and Jim Hutchinson have so splendidly maintained tradition and reputation.
Turner (“Alwyn” as he was so often called) fulfilled a boyhood ambition and played for Yorkshire on and off for a number of seasons. He had several centuries with the Colts and a distinguished career with the Bradford League before returning to Yorkshire Council cricket. His last innings for Hickleton in 1945 saw a well hit 53, proof indeed that “old soldiers never die”).