Hollycombe Organ Festival & Fair Extravaganza details
The Hollycombe Steam in the Country Mechanical Organ Festival & Fairground Extravaganza will be held at the steam collection in Liphook Hants over the weekend of the 26th & 27th July.
Following the success of our first organ gathering last year this years event will be a two day one with more organs being present and we are so grateful to all the owners for their kind support in offering to exhibit their organ(s) at the event.
We are delighted to have at this years festival, making its first ever public attendance at an event in the UK following its guest appearnce at the Amersham Fair Organ Museum over the winter period Paul Kirrages 79 keyless model 36B Ruth fairground concert organ, The organ is currently being fitted into its purpose built transport lorry ready for travelling the organ.
Other organs attending Hollycombe for the first time will include the 89 key Marenghi of Goff Radcliffe as well as the 49 key Marenghi of Richard Evans and Ray Bryant's 69 Keyless Dean "Charlotte Rose"
Other organs booked in to appear at the event will include:
98 key "Peacock Pot Pourri" Marenghi – resident Hollycombe organ owned by the Baldock Family and forms part of the replica Bioscope show at Hollycombe.
89 key Van de Broek – Mike Mitchell
87 key Gavioli – resident Hollycombe organ housed on the collections 3 a breast Tidman galloper set owned by the Hollycombe Trust
62 key Gavioli Trumpet barrell organ C 1800s– resident Hollycombe organ owned by the Hollycombe Trust and housed on the colletions late 1870s Mr. Fields Steam Circus dobby ride. The organ is operated from an organ engine on the ride and it is hoped to run the organ on its original barrells over the course of the weekend.
52 key Verbeeck – Glyn Tisdall
54 keyless McCarthy "Broadtown Belle" - Mike Harris Exhibited by Paul McCarthy
45 key Limonaire – Resident Hollycombe organ on the collections steam driven chairoplanes owned by the Hollycombe Trust. This organ under went a complete rebuild and repaint over the 2007/08 winter period with work carried out by the collections volunteers.
46 key Limonaire style - Mrs J Hoad
42 Keyless McCarthy – Cliff & Eileen Seamark
31 keyless McCarthy – Peter Davey. This organ is currently resident at Hollycombe and installed in the collections single steam yacht for the summer season.
31 note Pell hand turned organ – Andy Hinds (Sunday only)
30 note Pell – Anthony Hooker
30 key Pell modular organ – Graham Beck
27 keyless Robert Hopp – Dave & Joan Wright
25 note Pell Street organ – Dave Deakin (Sunday only)
25 note Pell roll hand turned organ – Brian Rapley (Sunday only)
22 note Trueman hand turned organ – Anthony Hooker
20 note Trueman & 20 note Pell – Mr & Mrs R. Dadswell
20 note Castlewood Busker organ & 14 note McCarthy “Babe” – Thomas & Ian Macey(Sunday only)
20 note Pell mini organ – Dave Clothier
John Smith Universal & John Smith Senior 20 – Terry & Margaret Pankhurst
Display of various hand turned organs & organettes. – Norman & Jane Dicker
Display of various hand turned organs & organettes. – Brian Chapman
The organ event will be combined with our first ever Fairground Extravaganza. This event will see the return to the collection for one weekend only of a cakewalk, in the form of Lawerence Bishton’s c1907 Brooklyn cakewalk.
A cakewalk formed part of Commander John Baldock’s original Hollycombe collection but sadly was sold in the early 1980’s along with the other steam fairground rides several of which have since returned back to Hollycombe but not the cakewalk.
The cakewalk will join the other resident steam powered rides that form the unique working Edwardian steam fairground that includes rides such as the only surviving Razzle Dazzle regarded as the world’s first ‘White Knuckle’ ride dating from around 1908, the late 1870s Mr. Fields Steam Circus dobby ride which is believed to be the oldest surviving mechanically driven ride and the 1911 single steam yacht Neptune. It is hoped that over the weekend the cakewalk will be powered by the visiting showman’s engine "Princess Marina" owned by the Searle family.
Other attractions to the event will include a selection of traditional sideshows to add to the fairground atmosphere, a fairground model display as well as a display of fairground archive photos. There will also be a display of fairground showman’s living vans & transport.
The collection on both days will be open its normal hours of 12 noon to 5pm with all the rides on the collections attarctions which include the steam driven fairground, railways and traction engine hauled rides operating between 1pm - 5pm. All rides are include in the admission price and are unlimited. For further details see www.hollycombe.co.uk.
We look forward to seeing fellow Imod members at the event (Dont forgot to wear your Imod badge!!)
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Anthony Hooker & Peter Davey
