Day 1: A new home for my Beatles cards!
When I was 12 and 13, my friend, Sherry, and I collected Beatles cards that came with bubble gum. Sixty years later, I still loved and cherished the cards and I wanted to find them a good home. I contacted the Liverpool Beatles Museum and asked if they would be interested. When they said they were, I was absolutely "made up"! That's a local expression meaning happy! So I hand-delivered the (over 300) cards to the General Manager and then I had a splendid time poking around the Museum.
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Brian Epstein on his way to The Cavern
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The Cavern Club
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The Liverpool Beatles Museum
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St. Peter's Church Fete, where John met Paul on July 6, 1957
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Beatles U.S. Tour 1964, list of cities.
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I saw the Beatles in Pittsburgh at the Civic Arena on September 14!
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The Beatles Museum
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Hessys, where all the Merseybeat musicians bought their instruments
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| Lime Street Station |
In the documentary, Get Back, George remarks to Ringo that the vast Twickenham Studios: "reminds me a bit of Lime Street Station".
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Lime Street
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"Oh, dirty Maggie Mae, they have taken her away, and she'll never walk down Lime Street anymore."
This is a line from Maggie Mae, an old Liverpool folk song that John's mother taught him to play on the banjo when he was a teenager. John played it with his first group, The Quarrymen, and also with the Beatles, and later made home recordings of it.
Day 2: Mendips, 20 Forthlin Road & Strawberry Field
For the second time, I did the National Trust tour of John's and Paul's childhood homes... and it was even better this time! I had planned to walk from Paul's house to Strawberry Field after the tour but the National Trust van driver went out of his way and drove me there!
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Mendips, John's childhood home
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20 Forthlin Road, Paul's old home
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| The bandstand at Strawberry Field |
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The original gate at Strawberry Field, now in the garden for safekeeping
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I wanted to buy myself a John Lennon cap but it didn't look good on me.
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Menlove Avenue bus stop going towards Penny Lane
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When I got home, the light at the Bombed Out Church was beautiful.
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Day 3: The Waterfront & the Museum of Liverpool
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Billy Fury statue
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The Three Graces: Royal Liver Building, Cunard Building, Port of Liverpool Building
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John, Paul, George & 2 friends made their first recording in 1958.
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The door to Phillips recording studio
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Museum of Liverpool
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Museum of Liverpool
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| YES! |
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Comedian Ken Dodd by street artist, Paul Curtis
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Day 4: The Georgian Quarter and around
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Birthplace of Brian Epstein
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Where John and his first wife, Cynthia, were married
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The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King
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Brian Epstein had a flat here
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Ye Cracke pub where John went with his friends when they were at art school.
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"A Case History", a sculpture by John King
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"A Case History"
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"A Case History"
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Formerly the Liverpool College of Art, John's art college
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Formerly the Liverpool Institute, where Paul and George went to grammar school
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The fabulous Philharmonic Dining Rooms
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The price of fame is "no longer being able to have a pint in the Phil". John Lennon
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