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Tamar Organ Club’s ‘Dartford Warbler’ Compton Theatre Organ at Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre, Lifton, Devon.

John Compton was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and then studied as an apprentice with Halmshaw & Sons in Birmingham. In 1898 he joined Brindley and Foster in Sheffield. Then he joined Charles Lloyd in Nottingham. He first set up a business in 1902 in Nottingham with James Frederick Musson, as Musson & Compton; the partnership dissolved in 1904. In 1919, the business moved to workshops at Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick, London, which had been vacated by August Gern. He occupied a new factory at Chase Road, Park Royal, North Acton, London in 1930. Compton cinema organs, built by the John Compton Organ Company of Acton, were the most prevalent of theatre organs in the UK; 261 were installed in cinemas and theatres in the British Isles. Comptons made many fine church and concert organs as well. Their cinema organs employed state of the art technology and engineering and many are still in existence today.

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