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Barrel Organs in English Parish Churches
Northumberland
*Alnwick (St Paul) : T.J.F. Robson barrel & finger organ installed 1846. Exported to
Demerara 1863.
Ref: Newcastle Journal (17 Oct. 1846) 3 & (7 Dec. 1937) 3; Elvin (1976) 28
Bamburgh (St Aidan) : Barrel organ. Ref: The Berwick Advertiser (31 Jul. 1891) 3
Belford (St Mary) : Barrel organ. Ref: The Berwick Advertiser (1 Sep. 1905) 3
Blyth : Barrel organ installed 1830. Ref: Blyth News ( 9 Apr. 1887) 5; Newcastle Daily
Chronicle (24 Jan 1906) 6
Felton (St Michael & All Angels) : Bevington barrel organ installed 1845.
Ref: Bevington & Sons (1847); The Newcastle Courant (29 Mar. 1878) 6
Haltwhistle (Holy Cross) : John T. Davis of Newcastle barrel organ installed 1820.
Ref: Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury (29 Jan. 1848) 1; Hexham Herald and Northumbrian Gazette (4 Dec. 1869) 8
Rothbury (All Saints) : Barrel organ. Ref: David Dippie Dixon, Upper Coquetdale, Northumberland (1903) 417
Warkworth (St Lawrence) : Barrel organ.
Ref: Newcastle Journal (18 Aug. 1927) p.6; Berwick Advertiser (18 Aug. 1829) p.6; Halifax Evening Courier (6 Dec. 1937) 8
Whittingham (St Bartholomew) : Brown of York barrel organ installed 1840. Ref: Newcastle Journal (23 May 1840) 3; W.S.F. Pickering, A Social
History of the Diocese of Newcastle; Newcastle Courant (17 Jun. 1887) 2; David Dippie Dixon, Whittingham Vale, Northumberland (Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, 1895) 208-11; A History of Northumberland, vol.14 (1935) 498
* Listed in Lyndesay G. Langwill & Noel Boston, Church and Chamber Barrel Organs, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1970) 89
Alnwick
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