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While the Tower ballroom was being restored at the cost of £500,000, Dixon resumed his schedule in the Empress Ballroom, where in 1935, a 3/13 Wurlitzer had been installed. In 1958, he returned to the Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer, and things proceeded as normal, in the newly restored ballroom.
Blackpool tower's previous Walk of Faith glass floor View from the top of the tower Blackpool Tower and Coral Island. Jungle Jim's Children's Indoor Play was a large indoor children's adventure playground situated within the Tower. It featured a £3 million interactive play scheme, based on a notional lost city, covering over 2,500 square ...
A new stage was also built, with space for a lift provided for the Wurlitzer organ console. The Wurlitzer organ that was installed in the Empress Ballroom in the winter of 1934/35 was originally from the Tower Ballroom. Its specification was enlarged to match the specification of the new organ at the Tower Ballroom.
The Blackpool Opera House organ of 1939, designed by Horace Finch, was the last new Wurlitzer to be installed in the UK. The Granada, Kingston also received a Wurlitzer in or around 1939, but most of this came from an earlier installation in Edinburgh. This was the last Wurlitzer installation to be opened, with Reginald Dixon at the console.
In 1929, a Wurlitzer organ was installed in the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool and after three organists, Reginald Dixon was appointed. Dixon later designed his own Wurlitzer and the original Tower organ was removed and enlarged as a 'twin' to the new organ to be installed in the Empress Ballroom, Blackpool within the Winter Gardens complex.
As the BBC’s dance competition returns to the Tower Ballroom, Isobel Lewis explores the town’s dance history, and how ‘Blackpool Week’ became a ‘Strictly’ institution
It was used there for BBC Symphony Orchestra rehearsals where an organ was required. But in the late 1960s the BBC acquired its third "official" BBC Theatre Organ: a Wurlitzer from the Empress Ballroom Blackpool, enabling Reginald Dixon to continue broadcasting after his retirement from the Tower Ballroom in 1969. [12]
Philip Julian Kelsall MBE ALCM (born 13 July 1956) is an English theatre organist who has been principal organist at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom since 1977. [1] Born in Warrington, Lancashire, he was inspired to learn the instrument by Reginald Dixon (“Mr Blackpool”), and was initially appointed as organist for the Tower Circus band aged 18 in 1975; he also deputised for Ernest Broadbent ...