In no particular order, the author would like to
thank the following people and companies for
their co- operation and help in various ways. Gavin
Fidler, Joanna Endell-Cooper, Matt Winkworth
and Emma Gadsden, Editorial staff at Taylor &
Francis, publishers; Axminster Tool Centre; My
son, Jonathan, for computer advice, etc; My daugh-
ters, Penny and Jenny, for their moral support; Olly
Adams, for proof- reading and modelling at the
surface- planing machine; My son- out- of- law, Darren
Eglington, for computer advice, etc; My brother,
Arthur, for his professional involvement over the
‘phone; Ironmongery Direct; Mark Gardiner of Croft
Glass Ltd, Hastings, for glazing information; Lucy
Woodhead and Jane Vincent of Jeld- Wen Windows
& Doors; Rachael Tranter of Ventrolla Sash Window
Renovation Specialists; Sash Window Conservation
Ltd, of Staplehurst, Kent; Mark Kenward, friend
and Building Surveyor; Harry Chalk, friend and
former lecturer at South East London Technical
College; Kevin Hodger and Peter Shaw, former
lecturers at Hastings College of Arts & Technology
(HCAT); Tim Hedges, former joinery student,
now a director of Howard Bros Joinery Ltd, Battle,
East Sussex; Peter Oldfield, formerly of HCAT;
Andy Cryar, for updated stair- fixing information;
John Taylor, formerly of HCAT; Russell and Lesley
Griffiths, for kindly allowing me to photograph
their staircase that I designed and built in 1995; the
following publisher’s reviewers of the sample stair
chapter of this book: Glenn Whitehead; Thornton
Smith; Simon Bilton; P. J. Clancy; Andy Cranham;
Colin Fearn; and last, but not least, my own reviewer,
Tim Hedges.