Unidentified

Pipe Organs, Church Organs, Churches.

Calling organists, organ builders, organ tuners!

Do you recognise them?

Please email me [email protected]

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My grandfather, Jacques Gauss, was an organ builder who worked for Lewis and Co. (in 1918 they became Willis and Co.), Organ Builders, of Brixton, London, from 1900 to about 1920.  He used to finish off the organs, do the final checks, tuning, and setting the stop combinations.  During this time we know he worked on organs in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, Liverpool and Bournemouth and many in the London area.  He took photographs of some of the organs he worked on, but unfortunately few were captioned.  With help from organ enthusiasts we have identified ten of them, but three photos are still unidentified.

If you recognise any of the organs or churches in the photographs I’d be interested to hear where they were.

Thanks for any help you can give.

(The exterior views may or may not be of buildings containing organs featured in other photographs—they may be merely churches he visited while on holiday!)

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Photo 1 (below)

Hall, church and tower are faced with flint.  Building behind tower has '[Mun]icipal Offices' in stonework at the top.

 

Photo 2 (below)

 

Photo 3 (below)

 

Photo 4 (below)

 

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Contact: [email protected]

Revised 5 Jan 2016

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