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- ↑ "Birmingham Organists" . Birmingham Daily Post . England. 13 April 1939. Retrieved 1 January 2019– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ Money, John (1977). Experience and Identity:Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760-1800. Manchester University Press. p. 83. ISBN 9780719006722.