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Reginald Herbert Dixon, MBE, ARCM (16 October 1904 – 9 May 1985) was an English theatre organist who was primarily known for his position as organist at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, a position he held from March 1930 until March 1970.
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 ...
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 ...
On 1 March 1974, the ballroom was the venue for the opening concert of Queen's first ever headlining tour of the UK. [9] [10] [11] On 14 and 15 January 2017, the ballroom hosted a two-day tournament to crown the first-ever WWE United Kingdom Champion. [12] On 12 January 2019, it hosted NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool, the first-ever NXT UK TakeOver ...
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.
The BBC Theatre Organ has existed in various guises and locations since 1933, used for in-house, often live broadcasts of organ music from the British Broadcasting Corporation. In theatre organ circles there are just three "official" BBC Theatre Organs: the St George's Hall Compton, Foort's Travelling Moller replacement, and the Manchester ...
The Opera House Theatre is one of the largest theatres in the United Kingdom.The present theatre is the third such structure to have been built on the site. [3]The original building, completed in 1889, at a cost of £9,098 was designed by the theatre architect Frank Matcham, who also designed the nearby Grand Theatre and the Tower Ballroom.
This organ is now located at Rye College in East Sussex. 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. [3] The Blackpool Opera House organ of 1939, designed by Horace Finch, was the last new Wurlitzer to be installed in the UK. The ...