Regent Theatre
3 St. Helen's Street,
Ipswich,
IP4 1HE
3 St. Helen's Street,
Ipswich,
IP4 1HE
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The organ was a 165 divided special – the chambers were on the LEFT hand side of the building one above the other. The blower was under the stage and the wind trunking made its way up to the organ chamber and also along the understage corridor to the console which was fixed in the centre of the orchestra pit.
The Regent WurliTzer was a style 165 X (2 manual six sets of pipes)which was quite rare.It means that its pipework was divided into two chambers one above the other on the right hand sidewall.It was removed in the early sixties or even 1959 and the chambers were used for air conditioning.This was broken up for parts although the little French console was paired up with a similar organ at from the Gaumont Exeter.This organ lost its console during the war.It now resides-ipswich console and Exeter pipework at the Burtey Fen collection in Pinchbeck,Lincolnshire.
Photographs of the Regent/Gaumont, and its Wurlitzer organ console:
http://www.ukwurlitzer.co.cc/2068.html
Interior photo from 2006 here:
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and a photo of Odeon 2 as a bar here :
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An exterior photograph (early 1970’s?) of the Gaumont/Regent, Ipswich here:
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