The centre contains a small silent movie cinema and it is planned to put on silent movies to take people back in time to how it all began. Needless to say that musical accompaniment will be provided by the Wurlitzer organ which has been completely restored so that it can be used to entertain the people of Salford.
The Wurlitzer, Opus 1664, which arrived in England on the 30th July 1927 was first installed in the Trocadero Theatre, Liverpool, in 1927, Ten years later in 1938 it was reinstalled in the Gaumont Dingle Theatre, Liverpool. The Wurlitzer was the 13th to arrive in the Country and is at present the 6th oldest surviving Wurlitzer in England. The Theatre Organ Heritage Centre also contains the world's first Museum dedicated to Robert Hope-Jones. It houses two original Hope-Jones Consoles. The first commercial one (OPUS1) that Robert Hope-Jones built in 1894 when he formed his own organ building company. The museum also houses the Worlds first Tibia Dura rank of pipes. Made in the early 1890's. Dura being the Latin for Harsh to the ear.
Among the Hope-Jones artifacts already collected by and donated to the Trust over the years is a reduced model of the organ from St Lukes, Tranmere, this was the first pipe organ that Hope-Jones played and also experimented with some of his early pipe organ ideas.
In the collection of items within the museum are pipes and other items from St John's Birkenhead including the first organ built by Hope-Jones.



