Liverpool: Beatles connections?

[stevelord65]

Just wondering whether any of you who have Liverpudlian ancestors (like me) have connections to, eg your ancestors lived next door to, or close to, any of the Beatles' families? I would love to say "my great grandfather lived in next door to John Lennon's grandmother", or "my grandma lived in the same street as Ringo Star's father" or something along those lines... There would need to be some kind of resource listing all the addresses of the various Beatles families going back 2 or 3 generations, but not sure if anything like that exists.
Interesting to think about though 

Steve

[CaroleW]

Google Liverpool magical mystery beatles tour - it takes in the addresses they lived at etc

I'm from Liverpool & although I loved the Beatles & their music (& still do) I've never felt the urge to dig that deeply into their respective ancestries.

Anything on Wiki?

[Biggles50]

I was on a working visit to a building in Liverpool in the ‘90’s and went downstairs into the basement to look at something one of my Contractors had found.

After the inspection of the undocumented High Voltage substation, I found another door off the substation room.  It was unlocked, so I went into the room which turned out to be an unused toilet block.  On the other side of the toilet block was another door and on going through the door there I was in what was the original Cavern Club.

Apart form looking around The Beatles Story and visiting Penny Lane and seeing the Strawberry Fields sign (all whilst en-transit on work related visits, it was a tough job but somebody had to do it) that is my Beatles connection.

[CaroleW]

I actually visited the Cavern Club on 3 occasions during my "youth" in the 1960's.  Never saw the Beatles but did see The Merseybeats & The Searchers.

I had a Saturday job in the bridal dept of Nanette's in London Rd & Cilla Black bought a peach coloured bridesmaids dress which she wore on TV.   We only had B&W TV back then😂

[Top-of-the-hill]

  I saw the Beatles in Margate, (I am not going to say I heard them!) Just checked - it was July 1963, so we were celebrating the end of O-levels.

[Ray T]

I was offered a ticket to see the Beatles in Blackpool - that would also have been around 1963. I turned it down!

[AlanBoyd]

Three degrees of separation: my brother once interviewed Derek Taylor (The Beatles’ Press Officer).

[MollyC]

I spent a year at the polytechnic, 1971-72, and lived in a flat close to Penny Lane.  There were no street name boards at the ends of the road because people kept on pinching them, so the city council had given up replacing them.

[Tall Al]

Hi,

Like CaroleW, I am also from Liverpool, loved the Beatles music, and visited the cavern on many occasions, saw The Beatles live at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool with Cilla Black also on the the show - it was a great night - happy memories.

There was a recording done at the Cavern Club, called At The Cavern, recorded live and a 16 track Decca LP was released in 1964, introduced by Bob Wooler, the compere and DJ at The Cavern featuring Nine artists at the time - including Heinz, The Big Three, The Marauders, The Fortunes, Dave Berry and the Cruisers, Beryl Marsden, Lee Curtis and the All-Stars, The Dennisons, and Bern Elliott and the Fenmen. There is a picture of me in my youth on the back cover of the LP.