Of 1s A Friend Miss Dora Pennell Miss Wills Mrs Purvin Mrs Lockyer Mrs Munday St.- there’s also a teacher of music in Bugle St….) For many years the organ continued to be maintained by Messrs Ivimey and Cooper, both of whom were members of the choir. The three main payments (March 1928 – £757.10s Sept 1928 – £378.15s and March 1929 £378.15s ) were all to James Ivimey – (1925 Kelly’s directory show a James Frederick Ivimey, organ Builder Up. Please note donations were made over an 18month period -so some individuals made more than one donation and therefore appear more than once in the lists below…. Additionally, further costs were incurred staging special events, a garden fete, organ recitals, bridge and whist drives etc. The ledger records that were some small costs related to this fundraising postage, leaflets, receipt books. Donations were received from the individuals listed below. The accounts show that a total of £1299 16s 7d was raised between September 1927 and March 1929. It is to presumably pay for this upgrading that these funds were raised.
In 1927 major repairs and modification, including electrification, were carried out, and the organ was moved again, to the current position in the north of the chancel. Many thanks to the Hammond family for it’s return. The original is kept with other Church Records at the Archives at the Southampton Central Library. Inscription relating to 1951 reconstruction 1927-29 Organ Fundīelow is a transcript of the ‘Highfield Church Organ Fund’ Accounts Book. It is to presumably pay for this upgrading that funds were raised In 1927 major repairs and modification, including electrification, were carried out, and the organ was moved again, to the current position. Ten years later, in 1878, the chancel was enlarged and the organ was placed on the north side of the new chancel. In 1868 the barrel action was removed when the organ was enlarged and moved under the Tower. When the north aisle was built in 1856 the organ was moved to the west wall. At this time the organ was in an alcove in the (then) North Wall, opposite the west wall. This first incarnation had a barrel action facility for mechanical playing (similar to a pianola) for when there was no organist. There is a brass plaque which shows: – ‘This organ is presented by a clergyman in the hope that it will aid in promoting congregational psalmody A.D. The organ was given to the Church, in 1847, by Rev.d Thomas McCalmont.
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