Introd

uction

I’m Partly D

ave 14

Foreword by Pete B

est 19

Do you need another B

eatles book? 20

Listen, do you want to know

the answers?

21A

cknowledgm

ents22

Lid

dyp

ool • Th

e History

Liddypool: The History—

“In the town w

here I was born”

27Liddypool: The Poem

34

“Yesterday”—

a brief history of The Beatles

36From

The Black Jacks to The B

eatles: The story of the ‘Fab 27’ 39

Lid

dyp

ool • Th

e Stories

3 Decem

ber 1938—A

lf Lennon marries Julia Stanley

499 O

ctober 1940—John W

inston Lennon is born 61

18 June 1942—Paul M

cCartney is born

7725 February 1943—

George H

arrison is born 83

7 July 1940—R

ingo Starr is born 91

1956—The Q

uarrymen are form

ed 99

22 June 1957—The Q

uarrymen perform

in Rosebery Street

1086 July 1957—

Paul meets John at St Peter’s C

hurch 109

14 July 1958—The Q

uarrymen record at Percy Phillips’ Studio

11615 July 1958—

Julia Lennon is struck down and killed by a car

11729 A

ugust 1959—The C

asbah Coffee C

lub opens 119

29 August 1959—

Ken B

rown joins The Q

uarrymen

130January 1960—

Stuart Sutcliffe joins The College B

and 132

5 May 1960—

Allan W

illiams becom

es The Silver Beatles’ M

anager 136

12 August 1960—

Pete Best joins The B

eatles 142

17 Decem

ber 1960—C

has New

by joins The Beatles

14527 D

ecember 1960—

Faron witnesses ‘B

eatlemania’

1479 February 1961—

The Beatles’ debut at The C

avern 149

6 July 1961—B

ill Harry foundsM

ersey Beat 154

28 October 1961—

Raym

ond Jones asks for the record, “My B

onnie”, by The Beatles

1609 N

ovember 1961—

Brian Epstein w

atches The Beatles at The C

avern 163

10 Novem

ber 1961—The B

eatles appear at Sam Leach’s first ‘O

peration Big B

eat’ 170

Decem

ber 1961—Tony B

arrow and The B

eatles 172

1 January 1962—The D

ecca audition 173

10 April 1962—

Stuart Sutcliffe’s death 174

6 June 1962—The B

eatles at EMI

17616 A

ugust 1962—Pete B

est is dismissed

17723 A

ugust 1962—C

ynthia Powell m

arries John Lennon 181

September 1962—

Tony Booth’s paintings of The B

eatles 184

4 September 1962—

The Beatles record at EM

I Studios 185

27 October 1962—

Monty Lister records The B

eatles for radio 186

The book is split intosections:H

istory, Stories, SongsVenues and G

uide

19 February 1963—M

ichael Ward photographs The B

eatles in Liverpool 188

18 June 1963—Paul’s 21

st birthday party: John Lennon beats up Bob W

ooler 190

9 October 1963—

The Mersey Sound

1937 D

ecember 1963—

The Beatles answ

er a call for help! 194

9 February 1964—The Ed Sullivan Show

195

10 July 1964—The B

eatles come hom

e to Liverpool 196

11 July 1964—Leaving Liverpool

203

Lid

dyp

ool • Th

e Son

gs“O

nly A N

orthern Song” 210

Lid

dyp

ool • Th

e Ven

ues

“There Are Places I’ll R

emem

ber” 220

Lid

dyp

ool • Th

e Gu

ide

Guide to The B

eatles’ Liverpool 230

Th

e Walk

ing T

ours

Liverpool City C

entre Walking Tours

232Liverpool C

ity Centre

234The Penny Lane W

alking Tours 246

Allerton &

Mossley H

ill (including Penny Lane) 250

Wavertree

261The W

oolton Walk

267W

oolton (including Strawberry Field)

270The D

ingle Walk

282Liverpool 8: The D

ingle, Toxteth and Aigburth

283T

he A

reas

South Liverpool and Suburbs 291

Belle V

ale, Netherley and C

hildwall

292H

uyton and Croxteth

294W

est Derby

298K

ensington 302

Garston

305Speke

307N

orth Liverpool and Suburbs312

Bootle, C

rosby, Seaforth and Litherland 313

Walton, A

intree, Maghull, Everton, Fazakerley and N

orris Green

316Southport

320St. H

elens 322

The Wirral

324

Bib

liog

rap

hy

330

Ima

ge A

ckn

ow

ledg

men

ts332

The Songs sectioncovers those B

eatlessongs associatedw

ith LiverpoolThe Venues chapterdetails every venueplayed by the groupon M

erseyside

The Guide section features

maps, w

alking tours andlocations for hundreds ofB

eatles-related placesacross Liverpool andM

erseyside, including thevenues, hom

es, schools andim

portant sites like PennyLane, and Straw

berry Field

i n t r o

d u

c t i o

n • 15

OP

PO

SIT

E T

OP

:B

ill Ha

rry with

the a

uth

or in

20

05

OP

PO

SIT

E B

OT

TO

m: T

he P

enn

y La

ne ro

un

da

bo

ut fro

m S

t. Ba

rna

ba

s’ Ch

urch

TO

P:

Th

e au

tho

r with

Th

e Qu

arrym

en a

t Do

veda

le Sch

oo

l in M

ay 2

00

5.

Fro

m left to

righ

t: Len

Ga

rry, Eric G

riffiths, D

avid

, Co

lin H

an

ton

an

d R

od

Da

vis

AB

OV

E:

Ma

dryn

Street sig

n, D

ing

le

RIG

HT

: Th

e view fro

m th

e au

tho

r’s child

ho

od

ho

use o

ver Ma

dryn

Street

an

d T

he D

ing

le, with

the A

ng

lican

Ca

thed

ral to

the left a

nd

the

Metro

po

litan

Ca

thed

ral to

the rig

ht o

n th

e ho

rizon

336 full-colour pages with unique photographs like the

view across The D

ingle at the bottom

i n t r o

d u

c t i o

n • 19

When the author, D

ave Bedford, asked m

e to write the forew

ord to his bookI w

as quite surprised and flattered, so I agreed to do it. Then the reality ofthe situation hit m

e and I thought,what am

I going to write that hasn’t been

said before about The Beatles? I had no answer, so m

y first mission w

as toread

Liddypool from start to finish.

As I w

as reading and turning the pages I suddenly realised and said tom

yself,Hey, I’m

enjoying this!The reasons why, you m

ay ask?

Without going into too m

uch detail because that would spoil it for w

henyou read the book, I found it to be different in layout, ideas and topics, anddone in such a w

ay that it was easy to rem

ember the vast am

ount of detailthat w

as revealed to the reader. Oh yes, and before I forget, here w

as anauthor that w

asn’t afraid to express his own view

s and theories and blowsom

e fresh air into early Beatles history.

The icing on the cake for me w

as the guide to Liverpool and Beatle folklore

with an explanation about each location.

Having been a B

eatle for two years and not professing to be a B

eatlehistorian, for m

e this was totally enlightening. To those w

ho read this book,I hope that you find it the sam

e.

The author refers to himself as ‘I’m

Partly Dave’. A

s far as I am concerned,

he is ‘A W

hole Dave’.

Pe

te B

est

Fo

rewo

rd

LE

FT

:P

au

l McC

artn

ey’s ho

meco

min

g co

ncert a

t An

field F

oo

tba

ll Sta

diu

m, L

iverpo

ol, o

n 1

Ju

ne 2

00

8

The Foreword to Liddypool has been w

ritten by former

Beatles' drum

mer P

ete Best, w

ho played with the group

from 1960 to 1962, w

hen he was replaced by R

ingo

t h e

h i s

t o r y

• 27

When m

ost people think of Liverpool, they imagine a dark and grim

yindustrial m

etropolis that should be viewed in black-and-w

hite only.Som

e historians would have you believe that nothing im

portantcould com

e out of the city. Before The B

eatles, it seemed as if

Liverpool never existed in any important w

ay. What w

as it like beforeThe B

eatles emerged as w

orld-famous figures? M

any people who

come to visit the fam

ous Beatles sites are am

azed at how beautiful and

wonderful the city of Liverpool is.

So, before we venture on a ‘M

agical Mystery Tour’ around Liverpool,

let me tell you about the tow

n where they w

ere born.

Liverp

ool—T

he H

istory

A settlem

ent called ‘Lytherpool’, a little fishing village sited on thebanks of the R

iver Mersey in N

orth-West England, is m

entioned in theD

omesday Book, com

piled by William

the Conqueror in 1086. A

fteroccupying England, W

illiam instigated a fact-finding m

ission in his newly

conquered land. He sent out clerks and scribes to every tow

n,conducted a population count and occupations and tax levels w

ererecorded. This becam

e theD

omesday Book and is seen as a vital

historical portrait

of England

in the

11th

Century.

In 1193, Prince John of Lancaster sought the Lordship of Liverpul. In1207, K

ing John needed a port outside the power of the Earl of

Chester to station his arm

y, as both the King and the Earl w

anted toplunder Ireland. K

ing John was not to be outdone. The charter w

ascreated in 1207 and the tow

n of Liverpool was born.

Liverpool remained a sm

all town for the next 500 years w

ithout much

expansion or growth. H

owever, w

ith the advent of licensed pirates,Liverpool, w

ith its excellent harbour, dominated the A

tlantic Ocean,

and press-gangs gathered local men to ride the high seas. Piracy

gave way to an even m

ore profitable comm

ercial activity in the formof the slave-trade. The route w

as from A

merica to Liverpool to W

estA

frica, and then back across the Atlantic to the W

est Indies and thesouthern

states of

Am

erica. The

first slaves

were

white

ruralEuropeans w

ho were sold in exchange for tobacco. H

owever, A

fricansbecam

e an easy alternative as the tribal leaders would capture their rival

tribe mem

bers and sell them to the slave traders. B

y 1825, over two

million A

fricans had been transported on Liverpool-based ships fromA

frica to

the W

est Indies

and the

Am

erican south,

of w

hichapproxim

ately 750,000 survived, so poor were the conditions on the

ships.

Meanw

hile, Ireland grew in im

portance to the King w

ith Englishlandow

ners, loyal to the monarch, taking the produce of the lands and

taxes from the Irish people. Liverpool w

as the natural port from w

hichto travel to reach Ireland. From

1741, Liverpool became the first

modern dock in the w

orld built specifically for the navy’s frigates.

Lid

dyp

ool Th

e History

“In

the to

wn

wh

ere I wa

s bo

rn”

TO

P:

Liverp

oo

l’s Wo

rld H

eritag

e site of th

e Pier H

ead

, from

the A

lbert D

ock

MID

DL

E:

Th

e Mersey E

stua

ry,

with

Liverp

oo

l on

the left a

nd

the W

irral o

n th

e righ

t BO

TT

Om

: Liverp

oo

l’s Co

at o

f Arm

s in S

t. Geo

rge’s H

all

OP

PO

SIT

E: T

he R

oya

l Liver B

uild

ing

at th

e Pier H

ead

A chapter on the history of Liverpool - essential to

understanding the city that made them

famous

34

•

t h e

h i s

t o r y

What, or w

here, is “Liddypool?” Well, it doesn’t take a great leap of

imagination to realise this is Liverpool, but it is w

ritten in the languagefrom

the strange world of John Lennon. It is a w

onderful piece of prosefor those Scousers w

ho could understand—in the m

ain—w

hat he was

talking about.

Lid

dyp

ool

“Reviving the old tradition of Judro Bathing is slowly but slowly dancingin Liddypool once m

ore. Had you rem

embering the ow

ld custard ofBoldy Street blow

ing. The Peer Hat is very populace for sun eating and

Boots for Nude Brighter is handys w

hen sailing. We are not happy w

ithQ

ueen Victorious Monologue, but W

alky Through Gallery is goodly

when the rain and Sit G

eorgie House is black and (white from

the littlepilgrim

s flying from H

ellsy College). Talk Hall is very hysterical with old

things wot are fakes and King Anne never slept there I tell you. ShoutAirborne is handly for planes if you like (no longer governm

entpatrolled) and the L.C

.C.C

. (Liddypool Cha C

ha Cha) are doing a

great thing. The Mersey Boat is selling another three copies to som

ego hom

e foreigners who w

ent home. There is a lot to do in Liddypool,

but not all convenience”.

Liddypool fromIn H

is Ow

n Write by John Lennon, published in 1964

by Simon and Schuster.

Lid

dy

po

ol: T

he P

oem

AB

OV

E: “T

he B

oot” (Boat or F

erry) on th

e River M

erseyT

OP

RIG

HT

: “Th

e Peer H

at” (Th

e Pier H

ead)

BO

TT

OM

RIG

HT

: “Sit G

eorgie Hou

se” (St. G

eorge’s Hall)

OP

PO

SIT

E P

AG

E: T

OP

:“N

ude B

righter” (N

ew B

righton

)

MID

DL

E: “W

alky Th

rough

Gallery” (T

he W

alker Art G

allery)

BO

TT

Om

LE

FT

: “Sh

out A

irborne” (S

peke Airport)

BO

TT

OM

RIG

HT

: “Talk H

all” (Speke H

all)

The poem "Liddypool", w

ritten by John Lennon, and the inspirationfor the title of this book

36

•

t h e

h i s

t o r y

1934 19 Septem

ber B

rian Samuel Epstein is born in a private

nursing home on R

odney Street, Liverpool.

1938 3

Decem

berJulia Stanley and A

lfred Lennon—John’s

parents—are m

arried at Mount Pleasant

Registry O

ffice, where John m

arriedC

ynthia in 1962.

12 D

ecember

Quarrym

en drumm

er Colin H

anton isborn in B

ootle.

1940 23 June

Stuart Ferguson Victor Sutcliffe is

born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

7 July

Richard Starkey is born in the front bedroom

of9, M

adryn Street, in The Dingle.

9 October

John Winston Lennon is born at O

xfordStreet M

aternity Hospital, Liverpool.

31 October

Quarrym

en guitarist Eric Griffiths is born

in North W

ales.

1941 18 June

Temporary B

eatle Chas N

ewby

is born in Blackpool.

4 August

John’s best friend Pete Shotton is born.

7 Novem

ber Q

uarrymen banjo player Rodney V

erso Davis is

born in Sefton General H

ospital, Liverpool.

24 Novem

ber R

andolph Peter Best is born in M

adras, India.

1942 6 January

Quarrym

en tea-chest bass player Len Garry is

born in Liverpool.

18 June Jam

es Paul McC

artney is born at Walton

Hospital, Liverpool. Q

uarrymen m

ember Ivan

Vaughan is born in Liverpool.

1943 25

FebruaryG

eorge Harrison is born at 12, A

rnold Grove.

1946 9 M

ay John is enrolled in D

ovedale School.

1947 6 July

Richard Starkey is rushed by am

bulance tothe R

oyal Liverpool Children’s H

ospital with

peritonitis after his appendix burst.

1950 10 Septem

ber B

rian Epstein joins the family business.

1956

John forms The Q

uarrymen early in the

summ

er of 1956 with schoolm

ates fromQ

uarry Bank School. Lennon plays guitar and

sings vocals; Bill Sm

ith on tea-chest bass; Rod

Davis on banjo; C

olin Hanton on drum

s; PeteShotton on w

ashboard, and then Len Garry

joins in September on tea-chest bass.

1957 16 January

Alan Sytner opens The Cavern, a form

er fruitand vegetable w

arehouse, turned jazz club.

9 June The Q

uarrymen’s first recorded engagem

enttakes place at a C

arroll Levis talent show at

the Empire Theatre.

22 June The Q

uarrymen perform

on the back of alorry at a street party in R

osebery Street.The gig is arranged through C

olin Hanton’s

friend Charles R

oberts.

July G

eorge Harrison’s first group, The R

ebels,m

akes its debut in Speke.

2 July John Lennon and N

igel Walley attem

pt tojoin the M

erchant Navy.

6 July Paul M

cCartney is introduced to John

Lennon at the St. Peter’s Church fete.

7 August

T he Quarrym

en debut at The Cavern.

18 October

Paul McC

artney makes his paid debut w

ithThe Q

uarrymen at the N

ew C

lubmoor H

all.

September

John enrolls in Liverpool Art C

ollege where he

meets C

ynthia Powell and Stuart Sutcliffe.

1958 6 February

George H

arrison meets The Q

uarrymen at

Wilson H

all.

14 July The Q

uarrymen record at Percy Phillips’

studio at 38, Kensington, Liverpool.

15 July

J ohn’s mother, Julia Lennon, is struck dow

nand killed by off-duty policem

an Eric Clague.

20 Decem

ber The Q

uarrymen, now

comprising John

Lennon, Paul McC

artney and George

Harrison, play their final booking of 1958

at 25, Upton G

reen for Harry H

arrison’s(G

eorge’s brother) wedding reception.

1959 24 January

The Quarrym

en play in Woolton. This w

astheir last know

n booking and they effectivelydisband after this gig.

January G

eorge Harrison joins the Les Stew

artQ

uartet.

JulyThe Les Stew

art Quartet turn dow

n TheC

asbah residency. Ken B

rown and G

eorgeH

arrison decide to leave the group.

29 August

The Casbah C

lub opens to the new resident

band, The Quarrym

en, re-formed by G

eorgeH

arrison and Ken B

rown, w

ith John Lennonand Paul M

cCartney rejoining.

October

Ken Brow

n leaves The Quarrym

en over anargum

ent about money. The Q

uarrymen—

John, Paul and George—

walk out of

The Casbah.

October

The Empire Theatre is the setting for the

Carroll Levis talent show

. John, Paul andG

eorge enter as Johnny and the Moondogs,

and were placed third.

“Yesterd

ay”—a b

rief history of T

he B

eatles in L

iverpool

An im

portant chronology for the series of encounters andevents that led to the form

ation of the "Fab Four"

t h e

h i s

t o r y • 3

9

To many people The B

eatles are John Lennon, Paul McC

artney,G

eorge Harrison and R

ingo Starr—that’s it, period, end of story.

How

ever, along the way they had the help of m

any friends without

whom

the “Fab Four” would have never existed.

How

the group went from

being The Black Jacks and The Q

uarrymen

to The Beatles isn’t a sim

ple story. A table on page 43 show

s thecontributions m

ade by many m

usicians on their long and winding

road to fame and fortune, and the follow

ing will attem

pt to flesh outthe details.

John, Pete, Eric, Rod, Ivan, N

igel or Bill

John Lennon (guitar), Pete Shotton (washboard) and Eric G

riffiths (guitar) formed a skiffle

group at Quarry B

ank School around June 1956. They quickly recruited Rod D

avis, who

had just acquired a banjo. For a couple of weeks they used the nam

e The Black Jacks but

this didn’t stick. They decided to call themselves The Q

uarrymen after the nam

e of theirschool and the quarry in W

oolton.

They had friends who played w

ith them from

time to tim

e. There was B

ill Smith, w

hofrequently failed to turn up for practises and w

as quickly shown the door. Ivan V

aughanand N

igel Walley w

ere John and Pete’s friends and occasionally played the tea-chest bass,but didn’t have the tenacity to stick it out.

Fro

m T

he B

lack

Ja

cks to

Th

e Bea

tles:T

he story of th

e “Fab

27”“W

ith A

Little H

elp F

rom M

y Frien

ds”

Th

e Qu

arrym

en in

Ro

sebery S

treet, 22

Ju

ne 1

95

7

Every group name and m

ember from

John's first group untilthe "Fab Four" as w

e know them

today

t h e

h i s

t o r y • 4

3

On

e-off p

erform

an

ce, record

ing

da

te, or b

rief na

me-ch

an

ge o

nly

John Lennon

Pete Shotton

Eric Griffiths

Rod Davis

Len Garry

Colin Hanton

Bill Smith

Nigel Walley

Ivan Vaughan

Paul McCartney

John Duff Lowe

George Harrison

Ken Brown

Les Stewart

Geoff Skinner

Stuart Sutcliffe

Mike McCartney

Tommy Moore

Cliff Roberts

Johnny Gentle

Ron the Ted

Norman Chapman

Pete Best

Chas Newby

Tony Sheridan

Rory Storm

Johnny Hutchinson

Ringo Starr

Roy Young

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xxxxx

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xxxxx

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xx

x x

xxx

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xxx

xx

x

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x

xxx

xx

June ‘56

July ‘56

Dec. ‘56

6 July ‘57

Oct. ‘57

6 Feb. ‘58

Aug. ‘58

Dec. ‘58

Feb. ‘59

July ‘59

29 Aug. ‘59

Oct. ‘59

Nov. ‘59

Jan. ‘60

April ‘60

23-24 Apr. ‘60

May ‘60

14 May ‘60

20-28 May ‘60

14 June ‘60

June ‘60

July ‘60

Aug. ‘60

17-31 Dec. ‘60

Jan. ‘61

Mar. ‘61

April ‘61

22-23 June ‘61

1st Feb. ‘62

Apr.-M

ay ‘62

16-17 Aug. ‘62

18 Aug. ‘62

The B

lack Jacks

The Q

uarrymen

The Q

uarrymen

The Q

uarrymen

The Q

uarrymen

The Q

uarrymen

The Q

uarrymen

The Q

uarrymen

Les Stew

art Quartet

George and K

en

The Q

uarrymen

Johnny and the Moondogs

The C

ollege Band

The B

eatals

The B

eatals

The N

erk Tw

ins

The Silver B

eetles

The Silver B

eats

Johnny Gentle and H

is Group

The Silver B

eatles

The Silver B

eatles

The Silver B

eatles

The B

eatles

The B

eatles

The B

eatles

The B

eatles

Tony Sheridan and T

he Beatles

Tony Sheridan and T

he Beat B

rothers

The B

eatles

The B

eatles

The B

eatles

The B

eatles

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Fro

m T

he B

lack

Ja

cks to

Th

e Bea

tles

x

Easy to follow chart show

ing the group's names and m

embers

48

•

t h e

s t o

r i e s

Hundreds of photos from

around Liverpool, bringingthe city to the reader

t h e

s t o

r i e s • 6

1

“A w

orking class hero is something to be” sang John Lennon on his

1970 solo album,Plastic O

no Band. It was a w

onderful sentiment,

but working class? N

ot a chance.

Hom

esJohn w

as born in Oxford Street M

aternity Hospital (Liverpool) on 9

October 1940, and brought hom

e to 9, New

castle Road (W

avertree)in the Penny Lane area. H

e was raised from

the age of five in hisA

unt Mim

i Smith’s house at M

endips in Woolton, a m

iddle-classarea. It is a com

mon English m

iddle-class custom to nam

e a house,and in this case it refers to a range of hills in the prosperous south ofEngland.

John was determ

ined to leave his mark on W

oolton, and engraved hisinitials on a tree near M

endips. It could safely be stated that Lennonnot only left his m

ark on Liverpool but on the world.

EducationJohn

first attended M

osspits School

(Wavertree) before

M

imi m

oved him to D

ovedale School (Allerton). A

t the age ofeleven, he transferred to Q

uarry Bank G

ramm

ar School (Allerton)

where The Q

uarrymen w

ere formed. A

fter Quarry B

ank School heenrolled in the Liverpool A

rt College (Liverpool) w

here he met

Cynthia Pow

ell and Stuart Sutcliffe.

Music

The first group he

formed

was

briefly called The Black Jacks

(See Dingle - Pavilion Theatre on page 287) before becom

ing TheQ

uarrymen. The first photograph taken of The Q

uarrymen is at the

Rosebery Street (D

ingle) performance in June 1957. O

nly a feww

eeks later, he performed at St. Peter’s (W

oolton) where he m

etPaul M

cCartney. They often practiced at his m

other Julia’s house at1, B

lomfield R

oad (Allerton), and occasionally at M

endips.

John started his musical journey on a guitar w

hich his mother bought

for him. Julia taught John to play, but only banjo chords—

theinstrum

ent she played. The other instrument he becam

e famous for

was the harm

onica or mouth organ. I alw

ays wondered w

hy he chosethat instrum

ent. Part of it was because he w

as given one, thoughthere are various stories about w

ho gave it to him. O

ver the

years

it has

been suggested his

Uncle G

eorge, a

studentor a bus driver. Either w

ay it doesn’t matter. H

e used it to great

effect on

“Love Me D

o” and other early

Beatles

tunes.O

ne possible reason for his interest in the harmonica could be traced

to “The Goons”, one of his favourite radio show

s. Every show had

two m

usical interludes. One of them

was M

ax Geldray w

ho would

play a different song on the harmonica every w

eek accompanied by his

band. He w

as a versatile performer and could play alm

ost anything. It’squite possible that he inspired a young John Lennon to take to theinstrum

ent.

9 Oc

tober

1940J

oh

n W

insto

n L

enn

on

is bo

rn“W

orkin

g Class H

ero”

TO

P:

Jo

hn

on

the to

p ro

w, cen

tre, at D

oved

ale S

cho

ol, 1

95

1

LE

FT

:J

oh

n’s in

itials ca

rved in

to a

tree, still just p

erceptib

le in b

lack

at th

e centre o

f the p

icture

RIG

HT

:J

oh

n o

n th

e Isle of M

an

scho

ol trip

OP

PO

SIT

E: J

oh

n L

enn

on

, Th

e Bea

tle, pictu

red in

19

63

Rare im

ages, like the one of John at Dovedale

School which have not been published before

66

•

t h e

s t o

r i e s

Fa

mily

of J

oh

n W

insto

n L

enn

on

Family trees for John, Paul, G

eorge and Ringo

t h e

s t o

r i e s

• 67

Th

e cou

sins: J

oh

n a

nd

Leila

Ha

rvey at th

e ba

ck, w

ith M

icha

el Ca

dw

alla

der,

Da

vid B

irch a

nd

Ju

lia D

ykin

s at th

e fron

t

Th

e pla

qu

e com

mem

ora

ting

Jo

hn

’s birth

at O

xfo

rd S

treet Ma

ternity H

osp

ital

t h e

s t o

r i e s • 9

3

Great archive pictures that aren't often published, like

this one of Ringo in A

dmiral G

rove where he grew

up

t h e

s t o

r i e s • 1

19

Much has been w

ritten about The Cavern and its place in B

eatleshistory. H

owever, there is a large chunk of B

eatles history that has beenoverlooked for m

any years. While The C

avern was entertaining jazz

fans, The Casbah becam

e the place to be.

Roag, R

ory and Pete Best’s book,The Beatles—

The TrueBeginnings,opens w

ith this quote:

I think it’s a good idea to let people know about The C

asbah.They know

about The Cavern, they know

about some of those things,

but The Casbah w

as the place where all that started. W

e helpedpaint it and stuff. W

e looked upon it as our personal club. Sir PaulM

cCartney

If Paul says it, it must be true.

You m

ay have heard about The Casbah as a club at w

hich TheQ

uarrymen played, but not m

uch else.

Any place w

ith all that history should be the focus for all Beatles fans

across the world. W

hen fans visit The Casbah they are surprised that

such an important place has rem

ained hidden for all these years. Thew

hole story of The Casbah is am

azing, yet I was stunned w

hen Irealised that I w

asn’t aware of it—

and I live in Liverpool. I had to findout m

ore.

Most fans w

ill know of H

unter Davies’ ‘definitive book’The Beatles—

The Authorised Biography (written in 1968) and w

ill notice TheC

asbah hardly gets a mention. Even years later w

hen he had thechance to correct things in his book

The Quarrym

en, The Casbah’s

only real mention is, “In A

ugust 1959, they had a bit of luck— The

Casbah opened. It provided them

with regular bookings and their next

drumm

er, Pete Best”.

If you have only read the early editions of Davies’ book then you w

illhave m

issed out. When D

avies later updated his book, he rectified theoriginal om

ission after meeting Pete and w

isely inserted a chaptergiving it its rightful place. So, as M

o would say, “C

ome w

ith me to The

Casbah”.

Let’s start at the beginning.

Our story begins in India, w

here Pete’s dad John Best w

as stationedin the A

rmy during W

orld War II as a fitness instructor. John trained the

Gurkhas in unarm

ed combat and the m

artial arts, plus he was a good

boxer.

There he met M

ona Shaw, w

hose father was a M

ajor in the British

Arm

y and had been stationed there during the days of the Empire. She

was

blessed w

ith an

exotic olive

complexion

and w

as m

ulti-

talented. She had a beautiful singing voice and had attended dance school, and latertaught m

any of The Casbah m

embers to dance. They m

arried in India, and Mona gave

birth to Pete in 1941, and then to Rory in 1944.

After the end of the w

ar, the Best fam

ily came to Liverpool on the last troop ship out of

India, landing at Christm

as 1945. John Best, Sr., Pete’s grandfather, had helped set up

the Boxing B

oard of Control and prom

oted many great fights at the Liverpool Stadium

.A

fter the young family returned from

India, John Best, Pete’s dad, took over the m

antleof running the boxing fights at the stadium

.

John and

Mona

lived in several different hom

es, but

Mona

never felt settled.

She wanted a big hom

e, similar to the one she had enjoyed in India and she spent a

lot of time looking for a large, perm

anent residence in Liverpool.

I asked Rory B

est what he rem

embered.

“I attended the school at the bottom of H

aymans G

reen called Marlborough C

ollege, andon m

y way hom

e I saw a house that w

as for sale in the road. I went hom

e and told Mo

and she went to look at it. She only needed one look, and she knew

she wanted it”.

29 Au

gu

st 1959T

he C

asb

ah

Co

ffee Clu

b o

pen

s“C

ome T

ogether”

AB

OV

E:

Th

e Qu

arrym

en o

pen

Th

e Ca

sba

h o

n 2

9 A

ug

ust 1

95

9

OP

PO

SIT

E: T

he F

ab

Fo

ur p

ictured

in 1

96

3, ju

st over fo

ur yea

rs

after T

he Q

ua

rrymen

ha

d o

pen

ed T

he C

asb

ah

Clu

b

Every significant event connected with The B

eatlesand Liverpool is recorded here, w

ith testimony and

eye-witness accounts from

those who w

ere there

13

6

•t h

es

t o r i e

s

Meet

Allan W

illiams—

“The Bootle

Buck”

and founder

of TheJacaranda C

lub. What hasn’t been w

ritten about Allan W

illiams, The

Beatles’ first m

anager? William

s has become know

n by the title of hisfirst book:The M

an Who G

ave The Beatles Away.

Losing The Beatles has been recorded as one of the biggestbusiness

mistakes

of the

20th

Century.

Is W

illiams

a fool,

unlucky, or

misrepresented?

InThe Beatles Anthology, Paul M

cCartney describes W

illiams as “the

little Welsh m

anager (little in height that is)”. This is important because

many have tried to claim

he wasn’t their m

anager, so Allan w

aspleased w

ith this quote.

To find out more, I m

et Allan in The G

rapes, the historic pub inM

athew Street w

here The Beatles used to drink. I w

as determined to

meet the m

an, not the myth. H

is sparring with friend and C

avern DJ

Bob W

ooler was infam

ous at Beatles conventions the w

orld over, with

Bob doubting the validity of som

e of Allan’s stories.

The first surprising fact was that A

llan was born in B

ootle, North

Liverpool, and not in Wales—

a ‘Bootle B

uck’ as he calls himself—

though he did grow up in W

ales and his family w

as Welsh.

You first m

ade your mark on the L

iverpool music scene by opening

The Jacaranda C

lub in Slater Street. How

did that come about?

“My w

ife Beryl and I used to love to travel around Europe, hitch-hiking and just enjoying

ourselves. We stayed in the Y

HA

(Youth H

ostel Association) in Paris, and w

e loved to goto the St. M

ichel jazz clubs (like Alan Sytner, founder of The C

avern Club did) and see

these youngsters in cellar clubs having fun. It was not possible in Liverpool then, but I

thought it was a great idea.

“I had been to the famous 2i’s C

offee Club in London and then others opened clubs too.

So I said to Beryl, ‘let’s open one’. I w

as still a plumber and found an old clock repairer’s

building at 23, Slater Street and we bought it and did it all up—

my m

ates and I did all thew

ork. It cost us £300 for the lot and we had to borrow

from the bank to get it finished.

“I went to a social club in U

pper Parliament Street and heard this great C

aribbean SteelB

and. I thought, that would be a novelty and w

ould maybe last for a w

eek, but they lastedten years. H

alf of them left and becam

e the first Liverpool foursome to go to H

amburg,

which opened the door for all the M

erseybeat bands. The rest of the steel band went to

London and found some new

mem

bers, came back and perform

ed with the new

line-up of the Caribbean Steel B

and.

“The ‘Jac’ took off straight away. W

e had art students hanging out there. This was

because there was an art tutor called D

on McK

inley who did the original paintings on

LE

FT

: Th

e Silver B

eatles’ m

an

ager, A

llan

Willia

ms

RIG

HT

: T

he

repro

du

ced

pa

intin

gs

in

Th

e J

aca

ran

da

b

asem

ent

5 May 1960

Allan

William

s becom

es Th

e Silver B

eatles’ Man

ager“T

he F

ool

On

Th

e Hill”

Interviews w

ith those key players in the story of The Beatles

On 19 February 1963, The B

eatles became big new

s when they w

eretold

that their

single, “Please

Please M

e” w

as N

o. 1

in the

U.K

. charts.

Photographer Michael W

ard had been dispatched from London to

cover the story of the latest pop sensations. Ward had decided he

didn’t want to take the easy option and go for studio prints. H

e

didn’t know m

uch about

the group,

but on

that day, his

photographs captured The Beatles as people and as part of their

hometow

n. They walked the streets of Liverpool freely—

something

that they would shortly not be able to do.

Ward

photographed them

at

various locations

around Liverpool,

including the Pier Head, the docks, N

EMS m

usic store and the Queen

Victoria M

onument. H

e shot them talking to fans, drinking m

ugs of teaand w

alking through the streets of Liverpool’s city centre.

He finished the day by photographing The B

eatles rehearsing in TheC

avern before capturing them on stage in one of their last ever

appearances at the Mathew

Street club.

Ward’s im

ages captured

a group

on the

threshold of untold

wealth and fam

e, before they became the m

ost famous foursom

e onthe planet.

19 Febru

ary 1963

Mich

ael Ward

ph

otograph

s Th

e Beatles in

Liverp

ool“H

ere,

Th

ere and

Everyw

here”

AB

OV

E:

Th

e B

eatles

on

th

e V

ictoria

M

on

um

ent,

Derb

y S

qu

are,

Liverp

oo

l

LE

FT

: Pa

ul a

nd

Jo

hn

on

stag

e in T

he C

avern

18

8

•t h

es

t o r i e

s

Rare photos of The B

eatles in Liverpool

21

0

•t h

es

o n

g s

TO

P L

EF

T: A

llerton

Fire S

tatio

n p

laq

ue

TO

P C

EN

TR

E:

Vin

tag

e do

ub

le-deck

er bu

s, like th

e on

e tha

t

Pa

ul a

nd

Geo

rge m

et on

, as th

ey travelled

to th

e Liverp

oo

l Institu

teT

OP

RIG

HT

: Th

e cast iro

n sh

ore, D

ing

le, men

tion

ed in

“G

lass O

nio

n”

AB

OV

E: T

he g

rave o

f Elea

no

r Rig

by in

St. P

eter’s cemetery

Lid

dy

po

ol T

he

So

ng

s“O

nly A

North

ern S

ong”

The following is a list of The B

eatles’ songs with relevance to Liverpool. Y

ou cancross-reference the song w

ith the appropriate area, which is in brackets, w

hereappropriate.

“A D

ay In The Life”The B

BC

banned “A D

ay In The Life” because of the line, “I’d love to turn you on” which

they took to be a reference to drugs. How

ever, Paul McC

artney’s contribution to thissong w

as about his morning bus ride to school on the num

ber 86 bus, and not aboutdrugs. H

e famously sang in the m

iddle section, “woke up, got out of bed, dragged a

comb across m

y head” and sings “made the bus in seconds flat”. H

e then “went

upstairs, and had a smoke, som

ebody spoke and I went into a dream

”. Paul said, “Itw

as just me rem

embering w

hat it was like to run up the road to catch a bus to school,

having a smoke and going into class. It w

as a reflection of my school days. I w

ouldhave a W

oodbine (cigarette) and somebody w

ould speak and I would go into a dream

”.U

pstairs was the only place you could sm

oke on the old double-decker buses. The routetook him

along Mather A

venue, passing the fire station mentioned in “Penny Lane”,

through the Penny Lane roundabout and on into town, to the Liverpool Institute.

“Cayenne”

One of Paul’s first songs, an instrum

ental piece composed using his first guitar, w

aspenned even before he m

et John Lennon. He m

ade a tape recording of it in 1960, andalthough never officially recorded by The B

eatles, an early demo appeared on

TheBeatles Anthology.

“Do Y

ou Want to K

now a Secret?” (see Liverpool - 36, Falkner Street)

Although sung by G

eorge Harrison, it w

as written by John Lennon w

hile living in Epstein’sflat in Falkner Street. It appears to be w

ritten for Cynthia Pow

ell, John’s first wife.

Every song with a Liverpool connection, like

"Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields Forever",

"Eleanor Rigby" and m

any more

22

0

•t h

ev

e n

u e

s

Lid

dy

po

ol T

he V

enu

es“T

here A

re Places I’ll R

emem

ber”

Pa

ul M

cCa

rtney sig

ned

Da

ve Pea

cock

’s pictu

re of th

e Nig

ht B

op

pers

There was m

ore to the Liverpool club scene than just The Cavern.

Everybody around the world know

s about the famous club but there

were venues all over M

erseyside that showcased the m

usic of the new‘M

ersey Sound’. The Beatles played m

any great venues, but some

unusual ones as well.

Kay Shepard

used to follow the bands to the various clubs, especially

to see her boyfriend (and now her husband) W

ally Shepard who w

asw

ith Earl Preston and the TTs.

What w

as the music scene like in Liverpool?

“My first experience w

ith the Merseybeat scene w

as in 1960 at thetender age of 14. There w

as a small hut in W

estvale, Kirkby, by w

hereI used to live. It only held about forty people and I rem

ember that it

was the first tim

e I saw Earl Preston and the TTs. I w

as hooked. Them

usic was fantastic and, of course, W

ally was in the band. H

e was

only 17 so, when they finished at 10.30 p.m

., my dad w

ould beoutside w

aiting for me to w

alk me hom

e, God love him

.

“I then progressed to the Aintree Institute. I absolutely loved that

place. Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, The Beatles w

ere on; alsoEarl Preston and the TTs w

ere on most w

eekends. Earl was such a

good-looking guy and all the girls would be scream

ing for him.

Walking up those stone steps, feeling the bass guitar thum

ping inyour chest w

as so exciting. There was one tim

e when they held a band

competition betw

een The Beatles and Earl Preston and the TTs. The

winner of the com

petition went on the response of the audience and

believe it or not, the TTs won. I rem

ember G

eorge Harrison saying to

Wally, ‘D

on’t forget your friends on the way up’.

“We w

ere coming out of the M

erseyside Civil Service C

lub in Lower

Castle Street one Sunday night to get the bus hom

e. I can remem

berthere w

as a gang of us walking tow

ards the Pier Head to the bus stop

and Paul McC

artney, John Lennon and George H

arrison were

walking behind us calling to us. W

e were all acting cool, not

answering them

. There used to be a hut at the Pier Head that sold pies

and drinks and when w

e reached there, we w

ere sitting on a bench andPaul M

cCartney said to m

e, ‘What tim

e is your bus?’ I told him 11.00

p.m. he said, ‘C

an’t you get a later one?’

“The last one left at midnight. I said I could do, so I told m

y friendsnot to m

ake a noise going past our house, as mum

would w

ake andknow

that I wasn’t w

ith them. There at the Pier H

ead I had a bit of akiss and cuddle w

ith Paul and made it hom

e around 12.30 a.m. A

ssoon as I put m

y key in the door, it was opened by m

y mum

, who gave

me a good hiding. W

ith every smack, she spoke, ‘I w

ill PaulM

cCartney you’.

“One of m

y friends had knocked and told my m

um w

here I was. O

h, the good old days”.

The Night B

oppers were a band that hailed from

Atherton in Lancashire and appeared on

the same bill as The B

eatles. Dave ‘Tem

pest’ Peacock was the lead singer of the N

ightB

oppers and he told me about his brief appearance alongside The B

eatles.

Why w

ere you appearing in Liverpool?

“We’d never heard of The B

eatles or anyone else. We did tw

o gigs in one night—Form

by Hall in A

therton and one in Bury. A

s I was singing, I saw

‘two suits’ w

ith trilbies.W

ho are they? I thought, they’re not local. They came to our dressing room

afterwards and

they assumed as I w

as the singer, that I was the leader, but I w

asn’t. It was D

ennisTaylor, our saxophone player. They w

ere Liverpool guys who w

ere both agents. It turnedout to be Jim

McIver and D

ougie Martin of Ivam

ar Promotions. B

ecause the Liverpoolbands w

ere going to Ham

burg, they were searching for new

bands to replace them. W

e gotabout sixteen gigs around Liverpool, and that’s how

it started”.

Did you know

the other bands?

“No, not really, because after w

e’d played we had to travel back hom

e to Atherton so w

enever socialised w

ith them. The N

ight Boppers played on the sam

e bill as The Beatles on

two occasions. O

n 11 March 1961, w

e appeared as the second billed act going on beforethem

for, ‘The Beatles Farew

ell Show’ as they w

ere soon returning to Ham

burg. This was

the last gig Stuart played here with them

”.

Over 100 venues that the group played across Liverpool

and Merseyside

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eg

u i d

e

This guide has been created as a result of my exhaustive research for

this book, and it is arranged to help you discover The Beatles’

Liverpool. There are walking tours in Liverpool C

ity Centre, A

llerton &M

ossley Hill (including Penny Lane), W

avertree, Liverpool 8: TheD

ingle, Toxteth and Aigburth, plus W

oolton (including Strawberry

Field). There are also maps and inform

ation about the rest ofLiverpool’s suburbs, Southport and the W

irral. These would need a

professional guided tour or a car to explore further.

Once you have found the area you are interested in touring, there is a

brief introduction. Also included is an index of the places m

entionedand w

hat relevance they have to The Beatles.

Each map contains references w

hich can be found in that chapter: forexam

ple, A16 on the A

llerton Map is cross-referenced w

ith the Allerton &

Mossley H

ill (including Penny Lane) chapter, and the index at thebeginning of the chapter tells you that the m

ap reference is Penny Lane.Each chapter lists locations in alphabetical order, so sim

ply look up P =Penny Lane and find the inform

ation you require.

Th

e Walk

ing T

ours

Page

Liverpool City C

entre Walking Tours

232Liverpool C

ity Centre

234The Penny Lane W

alking Tours 246

Allerton &

Mossley H

ill (including Penny Lane) 250

Wavertree

261The W

oolton Walk

267W

oolton (including Strawberry Field)

270The D

ingle Walk

282Liverpool 8: The D

ingle, Toxteth and Aigburth

283

Th

e Areas

South Liverpool and Suburbs 291

Belle V

ale, Netherley and C

hildwall

292H

uyton (and Croxteth)

294W

est Derby

298K

ensington 302

Garston

305Speke

307N

orth Liverpool and Suburbs 312

Bootle, C

rosby, Seaforth and Litherland 313

Walton, A

intree, Maghull, Everton, Fazakerley

and Norris G

reen 316

Southport 320

St. Helens

322W

irral 324

Please bear in mind that m

any of these locations are private houses.Treat these places w

ith the utmost respect and take into account

Lid

dyp

ool T

he G

uid

eG

uid

e to Th

e Beatles’ L

iverpool

that the occupiers deserve their privacy. They won’t take kindly to cam

eras being pointedthrough their front w

indows or tourists knocking on their door.

Taking an official Liverpool Beatles Tour is recom

mended as m

any of these places are oftenout of the w

ay and hard to find. Liverpool (and Merseyside) is a deceptively large place.

Locations featured here stretch from Southport in the very north of the county to Speke

and Hale at the very south of Liverpool, and across the R

iver Mersey to the W

irral. Takethe suggested routes or m

ake up your very own ‘m

agical mystery tour’.

AB

OV

E:

Th

e No

rth-W

est of E

ng

lan

d, w

ith L

iverpo

ol o

n th

e ba

nk

s of th

e River M

ersey

OP

PO

SIT

E: T

he P

enn

y La

ne ro

un

da

bo

ut in

20

08

Every location is charted on maps, w

ith explanations anddirections, including several w

alking tours for the reader todiscover

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g u

i d e

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5

The reader is transported to Liverpool, even if they can't visit

28

2

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eg

u i d

e

PR

EV

IOU

S P

AG

E: E

pstein

’s Artists—

from

left to rig

ht: T

he B

eatles—

Jo

hn

Len

no

n, R

ing

o S

tarr, G

eorg

e Ha

rrison

an

d P

au

l McC

artn

ey. Gerry a

nd

the P

acem

ak

ers: Gerry M

arsd

en, F

redd

y Ma

rsden

,

Les C

ha

dw

ick a

nd

Les M

cGu

ire. Billy J

Kra

mer a

nd

the D

ak

ota

s: Ro

bin

McD

on

ald

, Mik

e Ma

nsfield

, Billy J

. Kra

mer, R

ay J

on

es an

d T

on

y Ma

nsfield

, with

Bria

n E

pstein

loo

kin

g o

n.

Th

e Din

gle W

alk

The Dingle W

alk is about 6 miles (9.7 km

) long and you will need to leave

yourself 4 hours to complete it.

Start at Liverpool Anglican C

athedral on the corner of Hope Street. W

alk upthe hill of U

pper Parliament Street and turn right at the lights. O

n the corneris the R

ialto -(D

12

).

Cross over Princes R

oad and follow it on the left and into Princes A

venue.W

alk along and on your left will be R

osebery Street -(D

13

)—though it has

mostly disappeared now

.

Turn right down U

pper Warw

ick Street and on the corner with W

indsor Streeton your right is the form

er site of Henry H

unt & Son Ltd. -

(D7). O

n theopposite corner is the form

er site of the Starline Club -

(D1

5).

Walk up the road to your left, W

indsor Street. On your right is the form

er siteof 57, C

opperfield Street -(D

2). Turn left on to H

igh Park Street. On your

right is St. Silas School -(D

14).

Carry on dow

n and stop at The Empress pub -

(D4

). Turn left and on yourright is 10, A

dmiral G

rove -(D

1).

Turn back to High Park Street and cross over the road to M

adryn Street to yourleft. W

alk down and on your left is 9, M

adryn Street -(D

8), and find housenum

bers 10, 21 and 59.

Turn right at the bottom of M

adryn Street and follow South Street to the

very end. Turn left down D

evonshire Road W

est and then right down

Belvidere R

oad. Take the first right along Peel Street to the very end. On the

left corner is the former site of Peel H

all -(D

10).

Turn left down Park R

oad. On the bottom

right corner is the Gaum

ontC

inema -

(D6

). Follow the road round to the left and then cross over at the

corner of Aigburth R

oad. On your right is the form

er site of Dingle V

aleSecondary M

odern School -(D

3). Turn around and retrace your steps. C

arrystraight on at the lights past the G

aumont on your right.

Turn left from D

ingle Lane on to Dingle V

ale where you w

ill find Starr Fields-

(DA

3). Turn around and walk along M

ill Street until you find the FlorenceInstitute -

(D5

).

Finish the walk by heading back to the A

nglican Cathedral.

An exam

ple of one of the walking tours, w

ith directions on them

ap ensuring the reader won't get lost

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