FURTHER to our appeal as to the whereabouts of the Christie organ from the Empire cinema in Edmonton, reader Martin Palmer supplied us with the following:
"Your picture in the Enfield Independent of the Christie organ at the Empire Edmonton, following a reader's inquiry was timely in that on Tuesday November 13, Nigel Ogden, who presents the Organist Entertains on BBC Radio 2 each week, played a recording made on that very instrument some years following its removal by the London Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society to the Memorial Hall, Barry, South Wales, just before the Empire was demolished. Len Rawle, the celebrated exponent of the theatre organ was, apparently, a prime mover in its re-installation in its present home. Quel chance!"
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