Hi Tour,
I agree with what people have written above, your tree is definately not Brunswick, it doesn't look like brown turkey either, as mine has mostly 5 lobed leaves, yours looks mostly 3 lobed, could be white marseilles?.
I grow a few figs in pots and outdoors only the (first) Brebas crop will ripen in the uk. The main or 2nd crops will need a greenhouse for the extra heat and to wake them up a month or so earlier in the year.
To get a crop, assuming your tree will produce a breba crop, (depending on variety some only do a main crop) leave some wood, as you should start to see little bumps between the branches and the leaves in late summer, these will swell next year to become your brebas crop. I agree you could remove every other upright, then next year pinch the growing tip after one leaf has formed, it'll then form side shoots (which you could also pinch to control), but you ought to get some rip figs by august. You are also in pretty much the best place to grow figs in the uk, the industry used to be based at Worthing in the victorian times. Good luck :-)
Oh yes, there is another fellow on here called Vinny, his user name is kkk something, he grows loads of figs on the south coast, Bognor I think?
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