★ by Shackleton Pollard from the Town Hall, Huddersfield
Shackleton Pollard is one of the most accomplished and popular organists in the North of England, where he has given hundreds of recitals at various churches in Yorkshire and Lancashire, and has played for most of the great artists who have visited that part of the country.
Pollard began his career young, being appointed organist at All Souls' Church, Halifax, at the age of sixteen. Other of his appointments included that of organist at the Victoria Hall, Halifax, conductor of the Sowerby Bridge Madrigal Society, organist to the Halifax Choral Society, and honorary local representative of both the Royal Academy of Music and the School of English Church Music.