The Annual Milton Keynes Organ Festival takes place on Saturday 7th
and Sunday 8th October 2017 at Milton Keynes Museum, McConnell Drive,
Wolverton, Milton Keynes MK12 5EL, England.  There is a video of this
fascinating museum on their website; see http://www.mkmuseum.org.uk/ 
and http://www.miltonkeynesmuseum.org.uk/organ-festival/ 

A large number of visiting fairground and street organs will attend
the two-day event.  The festival has a relaxed atmosphere, and is a
nostalgic, interesting, low-cost event on a large site, some of which
is under cover.  The museum is now offering 12 months free admission
if you Gift Aid your entry fee.

You will be able to view progress on the two multi-million pound new
buildings which should be open next year to enable even more to be put
on display.

The museum has a Victorian music parlour with a player piano and disc
musical boxes which have been repaired; you may have a go at playing
the player piano.  There is a street re-creation with many old shops,
a street barrel piano, a cinema, an old school-room, printing display,
local history etc., a transport hall, railway board-room, telephone,
radio and lawnmower sections.  There is a nice cafe as well for a good
day-out, with free parking.  There is even a full-size wooden replica
of a Bloomer Steam Locomotive built ca. 1850 by the London North
Western Railway a few hundred yards from the Museum.

I will be there for the two days with a sales stall inside the museum,
so do come and say hello.  I will have some _free_ copies of the "Music
Box" magazine available for anyone who might be interested in joining
us or simply finding out more.

Do let me know by 5 p.m. Friday evening if there is anything specific
you would like me to bring along for you.  And don't forget the
Final-Ever Cotton Museum Organ Day this coming Sunday 1st October;
see my previous posting last week.

Kevin McElhone
Northampton, England