Many happy times round a Bell Block kitchen table have been squeezed out by Harry Jeffery’s Tivoli button accordion. Harry, a farm worker and labourer who also spent time working for the County Council, lived and worked in the Bell Block area during the 1930s. He was not a professional musician but he enjoyed occasionally playing the accordion for his family and friends. His grandson Baden fondly remembers dancing round Harry's kitchen table as a five year old with his sister, as his grandfather squeezed out a tune on the instrument. Harry died in 1940 and the accordion was given to Baden's father. Baden later inherited it and it was repaired and returned to working order by Lloyd Whittaker.
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