Transcript from East Anglian Daily Times discussing John Doman Turner’s scroll of the Trinity Fair published on Monday June 4 1934.

Southwold Trinity Fair – Walberswick Artist’s Panaoramic Record

If the hundreds of visitors to this year’s Trinity Fair at Southwold found little that differed from the showman’s attractions of recent years, many of them have, at least had the opportunity to view a remarkable panoramic record of last year’s fair. A record which already bears the signatures of some hundreds who have admired it. A really outstanding record, it has actually been in the making almost continuously since last year’s Trinity Fair. It is the work of Mr. J. Doman Turner, a London man, who has a Summer residence at Southwold Harbour. Mr Turner learned drawing when on the Stock Exchange, and took evening classes at the New English Art Club. In recent years he has found scope for his youthful hobby when in residence at the artists’ colony of Walberswick. The hundreds of sketches he made of Walberswick were transferred to his panorama, which today is 25 yards long by 2 feet wide, and is actually a record in colours of the whole village.

The success of his  unique effort tempted the artist to put the Trinity Fair on record. The three days it was at Southwold did not give him anything like sufficient time to complete his rough sketches, so he scoured the countryside, finding the various exhibits that were at Southwold.  This work is 22 yards in depth and, like that of Walberswick, 3 feet wide. Already on the margins left for signatures, several hundreds notably of showmen and their families, have been appended. Tracings from the original display bills and Press cuttings of the 1933 fair help to make the record even more complete. Besides the steam-horses, dodge-em engines, caravans etc. every stall – some even with their personalities – are depicted.

Source: Video footage taken during our trip to view John Doman Turner’s Trinity Fair scroll, currently displayed at The Swan Hotel, Southwold in 2012.