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Derby 2024
Our Winter meeting this year will be held in Derby on the 2nd November 2024 10.am. Derby St Osmund, London Road. Organ by Alfred Hunter 1875 2/30 installed here by Ed Stow in 2013. 11.am. General meeting in the church. 12.30pm. Lunch (at your own expense) Derby Museum. 2.pm. Derby Read more
76th AGM 2023@ Brandon
Our AGM this year will be held in Brandon at P & S Organ Supply on the 20th May 2023 @ 11am. As well as the AGM we will have an opportunity to have a tour of the workshops there and a tour of Solid State Organ Systems which is located nearby. We hope you Read more
75th Anniversary AGM 2022
With this being the 75th Anniversary of the ISOB the council have decided to host our AGM in Norwich Cathedral on the weekend of the 18th March 2022. As such the council have also taken the decision to subsidise the weekend so the price will be limited to £50 per head for the weekend. We Read more
AGM 2021
“The Council have decided that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with restricted travel, limitations on numbers gathering indoors and difficulties with hotel accommodation, that it would in our best interest to postpone the AGM which is normally held in March until further notice. I know many of you will be disappointed not to meet as Read more
AGM 2020
Notice is hereby given that the Seventy-third Annual General Meeting of The Incorporated Society of Organ Builders will be held at All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak, Savernake Road, London NW3 2JP on Saturday 7th March 2020 at 1.45pm, with a General Meeting to follow at 2.15pm. President Michael Macdonald is looking forward to seeing a Read more
Autumn Meeting Leeds 2019
This year our Autumn meeting will be held in Leeds on the weekend commencing Friday the 4th Of October. Two night’s accommodation at Jurys Inn, Bradford. Dinner on Friday and Saturday. Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday. Friday 4th October: Council Meeting 5pm. 7.00pm. Meet in Bar prior to Dinner. Saturday 5th October: 9.00am Coach to Read more
I.S.O.B Training Day
A training day is being organised for Saturday the 27th of July 2019 @10am in the premises of Pipe Organ Services in Melton Mowbray. It will concentrate on all aspects of leatherwork. The cost to members will be £10 per head, with students being free of charge. This course will be limited to 20 participants. Read more
Henry Willis IV
As many of you will already know Henry Willis IV died peacefully in the hospital near his home on Saturday the 23rd of June 2018, aged 91. There will be a special obituary edition of the newsletter.
Freemasons Hall, London.
On Saturday 5th March 2016 we were delighted to be given the opportunity of seeing and hearing the Harrison & Harrison restoration of the Henry Willis Instrument. We were treated to a marvelous demonstration of the various stops and the new five stop central section by Andrew Scott FRCO with Ian Bell kindly explaining the Read more