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Re your article (Last of the seaside cinema organs: Weston-super-Mare bids adieu to its Compton, 22 May), up here in Yorkshire, the Paramount cinema in Penistone has a Compton organ very much alive and active. Elland’s Rex cinema also has a Conn 651 organ in regular use. The Rex dates from 1912, the Paramount from 1914 – both are independent cinemas.
David …

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