The Annual Milton Keynes Organ Festival takes place again on Saturday

7th and Sunday 8th October 2023 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 the first of the two multi-million pound new

buildings which has recently opened to enable even more to be put on

display: https://miltonkeynesmuseum.org.uk/visit-us/top-ten/ 



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 both days with a stall inside the museum for The

Musical Box Society G.B. and also stock for sale from myself, 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 18:00 on Friday evening if there is anything specific

you would like me to bring along for you.



Kevin McElhone

Northampton, England