Beatle spots in Liverpool
 

I will be visiting england in Oct.
I know of the beatle musuem in liverpool.
Any other points of interest that anybody has would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Mike

Along with this forum, you might find some answers in a Fodors book: "Fodor's Rock & Roll Traveler Great Britain and Ireland: The Ultimate Guide to Famous Rock Hangouts Past and Present"

If you type "beatles AND liverpool" into the text box at the top of this page, you'll pull up over 50 threads. Here's one with some good info:

http://fodors.com/forums/threadselec...p;tid=34380836

It was long ago I went to 'The Cave"where they started, it was a dump but a friendly janitor. My friends in Liverpool later took me to Penny Lane and Abbey Road.

We're famous in Liverpool for our creativity. But pretending the Abbey Rd in Lpool has anything to do the Beatles is pushing it a bit. The Abbey Rd where EMI recorded is in London, near Lord's cricket ground.

The Cavern in Liverpool is no more - and hasn't been, if I remember rightly, for about 20 years. The club called the Cavern in Mattew Street is a new, anaesthetised (but the old one was a serius hazard to health and morals)and relocated operation.

Penny Lane is a slight minomer. A small bus terminal is described as Penny Lane on bus route signs, is the suburban location the song decribes, and has long been universally known as Penny Lane. And it had a prominent barber shop in the 60's. The actual street called Penny Lane is a few hundred yards away and is of no significance in Beatle lore.

One sight I think's not in the books. Navigate your way to Low Hill. There's a road called Kensington. 100 yards north east of Low Hill, on the right, is a bus stop with a break in the buildings and a very run down convenience store. The house next to the store was an electrics shop in the 50's and 60's. Recharging batteries, selling records and the like. And making records, mostly for families to send to sons on ships or stationed abroad. In 1960, the Silver Beetles made their first record there, for fun.

Percy Philips, who ran the shop, kept the original because he kept all the originals. He died in the late 70's, using the proceeds from his business for a modest retirement, in reasonable comfort and surounded by his family. Without ever cashing in on his extraordinary asset.

Brian Epstein, who managed a much more glamorous record store a mile or so away and engineered the Beatles' rise, died a decade earlier, desparately miserable and infinitely richer.

Neither record store is a record store any more. Sic transit...

I know it is in London, I should have added that. I said it was long ago that I was there. Is the '"needle"still there, I remember eating at the top and driving under the river through a tunnel. Is Everyman's theatre still active? My friends who lived in Liverpool moved to Australia.

Are any of the childhood homes of the Beatles still standing and are any museums of any kind?

You can take the Magical Mystery Bus Tour... it will take you around Liverpool and all the famous Beatles sights (Strawberry Lane, where they all lived, etc.). It's a fun tour.

The art museum in Albert Dock is also pretty interesting.

There are also the churches... the Catholic and the Protestant one..

I am pretty sure JOhn Lennon's childhood home is now open to the public.

Steve:
Do you mean Beatles museums or just any museums?
Liverpool actually has more public art on display in museums than anywhere else in the UK apart from London. See www.nmgm.org.uk. For why, and to see how everything in this world ends as dust, see http://www.univ-paris13.fr/CRIDAF/TE...plConexn04.htm, an extraordinary review of why there were once more maps of Liverpool on sale in New York than maps of New York in Liverpool.

The city also has wonderful Victorian buildings throughout the centre, as well as some of Britain's most outstanding pubs. The men's lavatories at the Philharmonic pub are probably the finest lavatories in the world, apart from those in some of London's old clubs. They are even open to women (just to look at) at certain times.

Lennon's house, and a house once occupied by the McCartneys is open, and managed by he National Trust. See http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scri...PROPERTYID=345.

While at Lennon's house, navigate your way to Beaconsfield Rd to see THE Strawbery Fields. Turn right a few yards up the road, opposite hte big school, and walk down to Woolton Village - site of he quarry from which the Quarrymen probably took their name, and site of their first public performance.

Lastly, if you've not found this out already, a football match at Anfield or Goodison is mandatory if you can get a ticket.