A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Walker, Joseph & Sons
WALKER, Joseph, & Sons, organ-builders in Francis Street, Tottenham Court Road, London. This business was established by Joseph Walker about the year 1819. He died in 1870, and the factory is still carried on by his sons. Amongst some hundreds of instruments we may name those in Exeter Hall (London), the Concert Room of the Crystal Palace (not that in the Handel Orchestra), in Romsey Abbey, St. Martin's, Leicester, and the Town Hall, Hobart Town, Armagh Cathedral, Bow Church, Cheapside, Sandringham Church, etc.
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