Norman and Beard were a pipe organ manufacturer based in Norwich from 1887 to 1916.
History
The origins of the company are from a business founded in Diss in 1870 by Ernest William Norman (1851–1927). In 1876 he moved to Norwich where he went into partnership with his brother, Herbert John Norman (1861–1936). In 1887 they went into partnership with George A. Wales Beard, and the company was formed. In 1896 the company opened a second office in London.
They worked closely with Robert Hope-Jones and held the patents on many of his developments, including electro-pneumatic action.The History of the English Organ, Stephen Bicknell
The company merged with William Hill & Sons of London in 1916, and became William Hill & Son & Norman & Beard Ltd.
Organs St. John's Church, Bangalore 1895 Norwich Cathedral 1899 Retrieved 6 October 2011 (NPOR N06483) Llandaff Cathedral 1900 (NPOR N11801) Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music 1900 (NPOR D07229) St Mary's Church, Oldswinford 1901 Peacock, Roy. A Victorian Church, St Mary's Old Swinford, Stourbridge: the Story of its Re-building in the Nineteenth Century. [Revised edition.] P.C.C. of St Mary's Oldswinford, 2008. p. 44. (NPOR N03681) Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Lowestoft 1902 (wind blown, three manual organ of 1,152 pipes, still in a pristine extant condition) St Mary’s Church, Rougham, Suffolk 1900 (NPOR H00690) Boğaziçi University, Albert Long Hall, Istanbul 1903 (NPOR H00690) Beckenham Baptist Church, Beckenham 1903 (NPOR N01278) Nairn Old Parish Church, Nairn 1903 (NPOR R00423) All Souls Church, Harlesden Leeds Cathedral 1904 Cheltenham College 1905 (NPOR N07470) St Stephen's, Gloucester Road 1905 St. Michael's Church, Tilehurst, Berkshire 1905 Town Hall, Wellington New Zealand 1906 St. Mary the Virgin, Nonington, Kent 1906 (NPOR D04898) Parish Church of Kilmun, Argyll & Bute, 1906 (water-powered) Town Hall, Auckland, New Zealand 1907-1912 Bethlehem Welsh Independent Chapel, Rhosllanerchrugog, 1908 All Saints' Church, Yelvertoft, Northamptonshire. 1908 Great Hall, University of Birmingham 1908 (NPOR N07270) Winchester College Chapel 1908 (NPOR D01086) Hope Chapel, Merthyr Tydfil 1909 Organ No.996 (NPOR K01201) Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1909 (NPOR N05206) All Saints' Church, Binfield, Berkshire. 1910 (NPOR D01111) St Mary the Virgin, South Elmsall, West Yorkshire. 1910 (NPOR K01511) St. Chads, Shrewsbury, Shropshire 1904 St. Michael's Church, Aylsham, Norfolk, 1911 St. Michael & All Angels Church, Wilmington, Kent 1912 (NPOR N08477) The Andaz, Temple 1912 (London) St.Stephen's Church, Cheltenham. 1912 St Mary's Parish Church, Slough, Berkshire 1912 St Mary's Church, Baldock 1913 St Mary's Church, Reigate, Surrey, UK. 1911 Walhampton School Chapel, Lymington, Hampshire, 1913 Usher Hall, Edinburgh 1914 (NPOR D07910) St John the Evangelist, Bierley, Bradford 1916 (NPOR N02678) Town Hall, Johannesburg 1916 Sherborne School Chapel, Sherborne, Dorset. 1926 St John's Cathedral Brisbane Australia Trinity Methodist Church, Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK. 1906. Calvert Methodist Church, Hastings, Sussex, UK Ocker Hill Methodist Church, West Midlands, UK, 1912 City Hall, Cape Town, South Africa United Church, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa Chapel of St Peter, Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia. 1913 Bethesda Chapel, Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales .1906 Troqueer Parish Church, Dumfries St. Christopher' Anglican Church, West Vancouver, B.C. Canada. 1963 St. Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church, Glencoe, Highland. 1916 NG Church Wakkerstroom, Mpumalanga South Africa 1912 St Michael's Church, Beaulieu sur mer, France 1903 Lycée Saint-Vincent Providence de Rennes (Fr) Chapel, Rennes, 1896 St Andrews Church, Trowse, Norwich, UK. 1913 St Mary's Church, Bedingfield, Suffolk. 1887 (NPOR D02873)
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