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Sydney, New South Wales: Exhibition Hall, Prince Alfred Park
C.J. Jackson, Sydney, 1870
2 manuals, 12 speaking stops, 4 couplers, mechanical action
Photographer: American & Australasian Photographic Company
Source: State Library of New South Wales, Holtermann Collection, Box 77 No 28 (B)
Prince Alfred Park, located to the immediate south of Central Railway Station, was the first park to be laid out in connection with a major Australian Exhibition, the Inter-Colonial Exhibition held in 1870 to mark the centenary of Captain Cook’s landing at Botany Bay. For the impressive exhibition building constructed in the park, Sydney organbuilder Charles J. Jackson exhibited an instrument of powerful tone, its aural impact being augmented by octave…show more content… The whole instrument was rebuilt in 1904-06 by Ingram & Company, of Hereford, UK, with the concert organist Edwin H. Lemare as advisor. A detached stopkey console was installed at this time and the instrument shorn of its brilliant upperwork. The organ and the hall were destroyed by fire in 1925.
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Perth, Western Australia: St George’s Anglican Cathedral
Hill & Son, London, 1874 (job number 1554)
2 manuals, 15 speaking stops, 3 couplers, mechanical action
Photographer: Unknown
Source: Western Mail (16 June 1927), p. 3 (supplement) - State Library of Western Australia, West Australian Newspapers collection of photographs, BA559/2315
One of two organs from Hill & Son sent to Western Australia, this instrument was moved into the new Cathedral in 1888. Subsequently rebuilt and enlarged on three occasions, in 1903, 1928 and 1959, it was removed from the Cathedral in 1994. The instrument was broken up and parts were used in other organs, in particular St Hilda’s Anglican Girls School, Mosman Park, Western Australia.
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Magill, South Australia: Wesleyan Church
J.W. Wolff, Adelaide, 1874
1 manual, mechanical action
Photographer: Unknown
Source: State Library of South Australia, SRG 4/58/23/2…show more content… The largest supplied was the instrument installed in the Garden Palace, an impressive building erected in Macquarie Street on a site now incorporated into the Botanical Gardens. Opened in 1879 to house the Great International Exhibition, this vast building was much too large for the instrument supplied second-hand by Gray & Davison.
The previous locations and history of the organ are at present unknown, but the firm’s ledger and shop book indicate that the organ may have been built by William Gray around 1804, rebuilt by Gray & Davison in 1867 and tonally modified before export to Australia as job number 4123. The instrument’s time in Australia was short lived, for it was consumed in a fire that destroyed the entire building in September 1882.
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Sydney, New South Wales: St Barnabas’ Anglican Church, Broadway
Hill & Son, London 1879 (job number 1740)
2 manuals, 25 speaking stops, 3 couplers, mechanical
