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The Jacaranda is set to be reopened.

A little bit from the article:

Mr Stanley and his team are even offering local musicians the opportunity to rehearse there for free, in exchange for a gig- just like original owner Allan Williams did for the Beatles.

He said: “Providing rehearsal space in exchange for live performances is our biggest tip of the hat to the Beatles and the Jacs heritage,hopefully it will allow new acts the same chance to form, grow and develop.

The mural painted by John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe has been restored to its former glory, 

@Mocker, several people in this thread mention a visit to those hallowed locations. I will have the pleasure next year. I hope I don’t faint.

Hi, @Wood92. I moved your question over here. I hope you can find some some inspiration from the posts in this thread. We also have a thread for Joe’s visits to Liverpool and Hamburg.

I think it is important enough to go see them that I am flying over in a few months. I better take a big cloth with me into 20 Forthlin Road to keep the drool from my chin from falling on the floor.

I’m not sure if we have a thread about the Central Park location. I’ll take a look.

Woohoo!!! Another place to visit in Liverpool…the central library.

Like the majority of libraries there is a ‘Music’ section (which is located on the third floor), unlike the majority of libraries the music section is one of the largest sections in the library and suitably so, as it’s based in the city with perhaps the most famous of musical stories, the rise of The Beatles. With hundreds of books dedicated to ‘British music and culture’, ‘American music and culture’ and ‘music theory’. Next to the ‘British music and culture’ is the section that got us excited. The library is home to nearly 100 ‘Beatles books’ such as ‘Revolution in the Head’ and the amazing ‘The Beatles: Anthology’ book and there are also a number of rare reference books that cannot leave the library.

On the top floor of the library you will find a few pieces of Beatles memorabilia encased in glass casing including original ‘Merseybeat’ posters, letters between Brian Epstein and the local council and also an essay handwritten by Paul McCartney , aged 10. The essay was written in 1953 in a competition open to all junior members of Liverpool’s libraries which marked the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Paul’s essay went on to win the under-11 category of the competition.

Liverpool Central Library adds another reference point for knowledge about The Beatles to the city of Liverpool by giving anybody the option to learn as much as you can about the world’s most famous band with the majority of books, CDs and DVDs that are available.

@Father McCartney, I just hope I don’t pee on myself like those screaming teenagers did at the concerts in the ’60s. Really, though, the bigger fear is that I will break down with deep emotion and cry like a baby.

Note: to @ me use cbatcu. See the changed-names @ directory for reference.

I went to the Beatles Story museum in 1996 (i think, certainly around that time – it may have been ’98), found it to be pretty dire and vowed never to go back. Granted that was 20 years ago so it may have improved but i still have no interest in paying the fee to return and find out.

parlance said

meanmistermustard said
I went to the Beatles Story museum in 1996 (i think, certainly around that time – it may have been ’98), found it to be pretty dire and vowed never to go back. Granted that was 20 years ago so it may have improved but i still have no interest in paying the fee to return and find out.

Particularly at £15.

parlance

Yip. Especially as that would buy me a nice Long and Winding tote bag.