Chester organ that gave pleasure to thousands in the city is now entertaining a new generation of film fans Down Under

A HISTORIC cinema organ that once entertained thousands of people in one of Chester’s much loved but long gone picture palaces has been given a new lease of life thousands of miles away in a theatre in Australia. The organ, formerly installed in the ABC Regal cinema on Foregate Street in Chester was removed from the venue in the mid 1960s before being shipped to the other side of the world in 1971.

While the organ of the Gaumont Palace Cinema (now Mecca Bingo) was destroyed when the building ceased to be a cinema, happily, the same fate did not befall the Compton organ of the ABC Regal (now part of Primark/Cafe Nero).

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