tribunegallery
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Having been "brung up" in the northern town of Hindley, as an early teenage organ student, I was refused permission to practice on what the then churchwardens deemed to be their "precious" Schulze organ for similar reasons - I didn't have an R.C.O. diploma or similar. The (same) churchwardens twenty years later were responsible along with the PCC of silencing their "precious" organ, turning the console into the console for a toaster and committing some of the worst ecclesiastical vandalism ever!
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Neil Shepherd - presently Organist and DofM at Standish Parish Church, Lancashire. Previously DofM at Cirencester Parish Church. Other past appointments include St. James, Daisy Hill (1984-9), St Thomas, St Annes on Sea (1989-94), St John Great Harwood (1994-8) and Keynsham Parish Church (1999 -1992). Interests include theatre-pipe organs, cathedral music and single malts! I had a career change recently and am now working in the travel industry based in Whalley, Lancashire, specialising in tailor made tours to the Baltics and Russia, as well as running a specialist music tours arm of the company. Not missing the hypocrisy and politics of large Anglican churches in the slightest!