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Steam-driven Fairground Organs

George Cushing still lives in Thursford, the village in Norfolk, UK, where he was born. He went to the fair for the first time in 1910 and saw electric lights and steam-driven fairground organs for the first time, inspiring him to build up his own collection of engines and organs.

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