I would like to thank my publisher, Paul R Secord, who has enthusiastically organised my texts to create this booklet, following the one, also available at a modest price through Amazon UK “Happy Birthdays! J.M.W. Turner and Prince George on Richmond Hill,” which appeared in 2025. That should be read in conjunction with this booklet as it deals with a further part of Turner’s Surrey, though now hived off into Greater London, links being provided also by the River Thames and its tributaries, the Mole and Wey. This booklet consists of two parts. The First is a sketch of Turner’s Surrey connections, now treated for the first time as a whole. The inspiration for this has come from Roger Musson, whom I first met on a school playing field many decades ago; my school was precisely on the border of Surrey and Sussex, chosen by my grandparents who had retired to Dorking. A few years ago he proposed an organised visit to St Catherine’s Hill, Guildford, and the Watts Gallery at Compton, which it is hoped may take place later this year The first was the subject of a fascinating watercolour by Turner in his series of Picturesque Views in England and Wales. The Watts Gallery has since I first visited it been extended to become the Watts Village. Watts continued the tradition of poetic art which Turner, in one of his modes, followed and his houses and galleries were arranged in a similarly traditional way which the later 19th century abandoned with its conflation of the two into the artist’s studio. The Second Part follows a series of Walks round Turner’s London, though its account of the houses round Clapham Common is more detailed than in the booklets devoted to those. It is not arranged like them with a prescribed route, as different routes might suit different people. Another walk but with a definite route – of Southwark and Bermondsey, also in Turner’s day part of the county of Surrey - has been made but so far not printed. I have to thank Alyson Wilson of the Clapham Society for sorting out the topography of Turner’s two Clapham views. On 28 September 2024 a plaque was erected in Lavender Hill Sweep, Clapham, at the instigation of Jeanne Rathbone, on the site of the mansion of Tom Taylor and his wife. On his last birthday, 23 April 1851, Turner thanked Tom for sending him a copy of “The Stones of Venice” by John Ruskin, each being part of the small group of the artist’s close friends. Much of what follows concerns stones, buildings which Turner, the architect manqué, loved to depict. His scenes are also often remarkable for their human content as in the watercolour of St Catherine’s Hill foregrounded by a fair. Friendship was an important part of Turner’s life. To the lives of two friends noted here I was introduced by descendants, the late J.M. Wheeler FRIBA and the distinguished venereologist Dr F.J.G. Jefferiss. Turner was remarkably attached to the artist W.F. Wells, his wife and daughters, one of whom married a Wheeler. Another early influence was Dr Thomas Monro, whose informal art academy Turner attended and who was physician to Bethlem Hospital where Turner’s mother died. Monro became lame after playing tennis with the Prince Regent. When the artist came to dine, Mrs Monro retired upstairs. Their son noted, 3 November 1809, “Lord Essex and Mr Turner called, Papa bought a house dog ‘Mallard Turner’, My Lord!” The guard dog was chosen for its fierceness. Dr Selby Whittingham The Independent Turner Society, Turner House, 153 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0TQ. February 2026