Under construction in H&H Workshops. This picture shows the general layout and soundboard positions very clearly, Great at the front, Swell above & behind, Pedal at the higher level and to the sides. There are no off-note chests in the organ
Double rise reservoir under construction
pedalboard under construction
Swell box under construction
Pedal Table with groovings
Pedal upperboards (cf. pedal table earlier)
Great Soundboard. Note the grooved table - no slider seals here (or bleed holes either)
Stop action
Great Stop & key actions
with Swell box doors open (tuning access to fluework - the swell basses are planted in the centre)
Fitting sliders to Great
Console
Console. Balenced Swell pedal, swell composition pedals to left, great composition pedals to right. On the extreme left is the Great to Pedal horse shoe reverser
Great Stops
Swell & Pedal & Couplers
Nameplate.
Pedalboard, closely based on period Walker patterns.
Note the short depth of the pedalboard... made to a period pattern
The reassurance of a well-placed swell pedal...
The case, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, architect of the Natural History Museum.
The wooden pipes to either side were re-instated to their original position and decoration
Restored wooden pipes. These dummy pipes were re-located inside the organ in the 1950s and painted over. They were restored by Mike Doherty with the original patterns and returned to their original place
Walker Open Diapason, 1867. Note the slight arching of the upper lip - a typically English trait.
Tops of the wooden shams showing bass of great trumpet and swell shutters behind
stop shields engraved in Walker script font... The stop head design is copied from Walker models too
The action, closely based on historic Walker patterns. Tuners will note the ease of adjusting the Great and Sw to Gt coupler. The actions are tensioned with thumper bars.
Great soundboard. From left: Trumpet, Mixture III, Harmonic Flute 4, 12th, 15th, Principal, Dulciana (to TC), Clarionet Flute, Bourdon 16 (bottom 8ve conveyed to pipes standing on pedal soundboard), Open Diapason
Tuning access to Swell Oboe through swell shutters
Swell fluework photographed through swell doors. The Stopped Diapson is Hill, circa 1870. To the left is the Swell Open diapason, to the right, the Principal, Fifteenth and Oboe
Pedal Bassoon, pedal Principal and Bourdon with the basses of the Great Bourdon behind. The Pedal Bassoon is Willis, 1848, from South Bermondsey, full length, just 3 inch (75mm) scale at 16' C.
Great soundboard
Walker writing on back of the basses of the Great Open Diapson
Great Soundboard, with view into nave behind.
Great soundboard with groovings in table
Pallets. Note leather hinges at end.
tracker ends. Note how the trackers and bound ends are typical of Victorian organ's practice - not modern at all.
Frame coming together.
Bellows & wind trunks being fitted
Mahogany square and backfalls in combs being made
Walker writing on old wooden pipes (conserved)
Great traces and composition pedal fans
More great compo fans and traces. To the right are trackers to the pedal soundboard
console action coming together. Note horse shoe pedal for Gt to Pd
Case door being repaired. the bottom of the door was removed when a blower was fitted to the organ in 1948. The blower was re-sited inside the organ and the doors repaired
pedal bassoon
Coming together with casework re-attached
Wooden pipes back in place before the paint decoration was restored (they had been painted over in gray paint in 1958 when they were re-sited inside the organ and pressed into use as a pedal principal 8 - they were originally sham pipes just on display. However, the painted decoration was just discernible under the gray coat). Behind are the pedal pipes
Wooden pipes back in place before the paint decoration was restored (other side)
View through case pipes - can see the position of the swell box and pedal pipes behind
replicas of Gt Clarionet Flute being made (for pipes lost in 1989)
Console closer to completion...
Pedal chest. Bassoon in front, principal 8 Bourdon, Gt Bourdon at back (bottom 8ve conveyed off Great soundboard & sited on pedal chest)
Framed great rollerboard (stop action in background)
Great Trumpet (dead length, c. 84% lead)
Great Trumpet (dead length)
