This was The Beatles’ 13th of 48 consecutive nights performing at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany.

This was The Beatles’ 12th of 48 consecutive nights performing at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany.

This was The Beatles’ 10th of 48 consecutive nights performing at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany.

This was The Beatles’ ninth of 48 consecutive nights performing at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany.

This was The Beatles’ seventh of 48 consecutive nights performing at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany.

This was The Beatles’ sixth of 48 consecutive nights performing at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany.

This was The Beatles’ fourth of 48 consecutive nights performing at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany.

This was The Beatles’ third of 48 consecutive nights performing at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany.

The Beatles arrived in Hamburg, Germany in the early evening of 17 August 1960, for the first of 48 nights at the Indra Club on the Grosse Freiheit street.

The second major phase in The Beatles’ story was about to begin. On 16 August 1960 they embarked on the journey from Liverpool to Hamburg, Germany.

Paul McCartney wrote to a drummer on this day, offering an audition to join The Beatles on their first trip to Hamburg.

With their Saturday night residency at the Grosvenor Ballroom cancelled due to local complaints, The Beatles had some time off. On this night they went to Mona Best’s Casbah …

The penultimate show of The Silver Beetles’ Saturday night residency at the notoriously rough Grosvenor Ballroom in Liscard, Wallasey.

This was The Silver Beetles’ eighth consecutive Saturday night show at the Grosvenor Ballroom, a venue in Liscard Wallasey run by local promoter Les Dodd under the name Paramount …