Best Apples and Pears for Espalier?

I want to make an espalier of Apples and Pears. I know nothing about training or pruning fruit trees, but I've read a bit about it and gather than tip-producers are not suitable.

I also went to an Apple Day and did some tasting; I wrote down a few that I didn't like the taste off ...

So here's my short list, but I'd like to hear of Apple and Pear varieties that folk have/would like to have in their gardens pls - preferably ones that are suitable for Espalier, but just knowing peoples preferences, and the ones you hate, would be helpful.

Apples:
Adams Pearmain
Beauty of Bath
Blenheim Orange RHS=AGM partial tip-bearer
Braeburn
Clopton Red (local and of geographic interest to me )
Claygate Pearmain RHS=AGM
Crispin
Discovery
Granny Smith ? (Tip bearer)
Harling Hero ? (Bit tasteless)
Kidd's Orange Red ? Taste="OK" RHS=AGM "Very reliable and heavy cropping.fruit prone to coarse russet"
Laxtons Fortune (RHS=AGM "The best autumn dessert apple")
Lynns Pippin
Merton Worcester ?? (Tart, not sure)
Red Falstaff
Redsleeves
Rosette
Sunset (on M29) "does best as at trained form, and fruits relatively early" RHS=AGM "Very reliable and heavy cropping"
Tydemans Late Orange
Winter Peach
Worcester Pearmain RHS=AGM Tip bearer

Pears:
Beth (on QA) RHS=AGM "Heavy, regular crops."
Catillac RHS=AGM Cooker only
Concorde RHS=AGM "Heavy, regular crops"
Conference RHS=AGM "Heavy, regular crops"
Humbug
Sensation
Williams Bon Chretien RHS=AGM "Good regular crops"

 

I love Crispin. Not widely grown or known but is crisp with a strong pineapple perfume. Bears rather large fruit but cooks and stores well for an English apple,
Jenny

 

Thanks John. I am planning to get mine from AshridgeTrees - I buy a lot of plants (Trees / hedge plants) from them each year and have always been impressed with the quality, and they do a large range of Apples / Pears - £15 each for bare-rooted Maidens (much the same as your nursery [catalogue says £12-15] I think John)