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