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Wurlitzers made regular radio broadcasts via the BBC, becoming stars themselves beside their organists. This was the last Wurlitzer installation to be opened, with Reginald Dixon at the console. The Granada, Kingston also received a Wurlitzer in or around 1939, but most of this came from an earlier installation in Edinburgh. The Blackpool Opera House organ of 1939, designed by Horace Finch, was the last new Wurlitzer to be installed in the UK. The Trocadero Elephant and Castle Wurlitzer was the largest organ ever shipped to the UK, installed in 1930 for the grand opening of the 3,400-seater cinema. This organ is now located at Rye College in East Sussex. Like the Beer Wurlitzer it was a 2-manual, 6-rank instrument. This instrument was inaugurated on 6 April 1925. The second Wurlitzer theatre organ to be opened in Great Britain was at the Palace Cinema in Tottenham, North London. More details about the Beer Wurlitzer along with photos can be found on the website.
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After a period in private ownership in Sedgley, also in Staffordshire, during the mid-1950s, it is now installed and operational in the Congregational Church in Beer, Devon. A very small, six-rank instrument, it was installed at the Picture House, Walsall, Staffordshire, where it opened on 26 January 1925. The first Wurlitzer theatre organ shipped to the UK was dispatched on 1 December 1924, and shipped in via Southampton Docks. Wurlitzer at the Musical Museum, BrentfordĪ number of Wurlitzer theatre organs were imported and installed in the United Kingdom in the period from 1925 to just before the Second World War (1939–45).