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liverpoollomo · 2 months

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Strawberry Field gates. Nikon F65. Expired Kodak 400.

Strawberry Field was a children's home operated by The Salvation Army up until 2005. It was opened to the public in 2019 and now consists of a shop, cafe and training centre.

The gates which stand on Beaconsfield Road have been a tourist attraction and place of pilgrimage for some years due to the Beatles song.

When io visited I was unable to go into the new facility due to a private function so all i could photograph was the gates.

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julie-wing · 1 year

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beatleshistoryblog · 1 year

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LECTURE 6: MEET THE BEATLES (PART 1): Here’s an actual recording of The Quarrymen (Quarry Men) skiffle group playing on July 6, 1957, the historic day John Lennon met Paul McCartney. Lennon’s group performed on the back of a lorry at St. Peter’s Church Rose Queen garden fete. One of the people in the audience, police officer Bob Molyneux recorded the set on a portable Grundig TK8 reel-to-reel tape machine. Six years later, Molyneux attempted to give the tape to Lennon (after contacting Ringo Starr about it), but Lennon failed to respond and the policeman locked the recording away for years. Finally, in 1994, he sold it auction at Sotheby’s for £78,500. Thankfully, the recording has been made public by its owner.

#The Quarrymen #John Lennon #Paul McCartney #Bob Molyneux #July 6 1957 #St. Peter’s Church Rose Queen garden fete #Woolton #Liverpool #audio recordings

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kinsfaun · 8 months

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Paul McCartney aged 15 in his school photo, June 1957. Liverpool Institute.

#the inny #paul mccartney #school photo #1957 #a couple of weeks before woolton village fete #little elvis #the beatles

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javelinbk · 10 months

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The day John met Paul. The Beatles Anthology (1995) (part one)

#‘backstage’#lol ok john #always love the way he says ‘paul met me’ not ‘I met paul’#as if it was some kind of great honour to meet this 16yo kid from woolton #(which of course it was)#paul mccartney #john lennon #john and paul #the beatles #the day paul met john #6 july 1957 #happy mclennon day to all who celebrate!#beatles anthology #javelin’s gifs

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foryouwereinmysong · 10 months

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#still emotional about this #happy anniversary #john lennon #paul mccartney #mclennon #woolton village fete

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morethansalad · 2 months

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Lord Woolton Pie (Vegan-Friendly)

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lastlennonista · 10 months

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It’s the holiest of holidays, July 6th, or rather, The Day John Met Paul. A mere 66 or so years ago today, Lennon and McCartney set heart eyes upon each other, and I am ridiculously grateful they did.

#way better than Independence Day #lennon mccartney #woolton fete #July 6 1957 #mclennon

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zilabee · 1 year

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"I wasn't there because ahead of the Quarry Men's evening performance I'd gone home for a bite to eat. I only lived a ten minute walk away and hadn't eaten since breakfast, so after coming off the church field and putting my kit in place ready for the evening's performance I'd nipped home for my tea and in the process I missed that historic audition."

- - - Colin Hanton

"I must have nipped out to the toilet because I have no memory of the greatest meeting in rock n roll history."

- - - Rod Davis

"I noticed Paul while we were playing. He was standing with Ivan... but I don't remember him carrying a guitar."

- - - Eric Griffiths

Pre:Fab! - by Hanton and Hall.

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History quietly shifting itself into place, while half the quarry men are looking the other way.

I just I love that some people are out there writing meaningful fantastic remembrances about Paul's eyelashes and electricity in the air, and then others are like 'I don't know, maybe he was there..?'

Colin Hanton (quarry man) consistently claims that Paul met John before the Quarry Men went on to play in the afternoon. Colin was in the scout hut, playing his drums with one of the scouts, getting ready for the afternoon performance:

"At the far end of the hut, I noticed John had returned by himself. [...] He was standing talking to another scout. It was at this moment that Ivan Vaughan walked in accompanied by this dark-haired lad whom I'd never seen before. I carried on jamming while the three of them stood talking. This carried on for about five or ten minutes, after which John, Ivy, and the stranger left the scout hut together."

Sounds completely like what a constructed memory of that event would seem like, but also sounds completely like something that might have happened too, and we'll never know.

Eric, meanwhile, believes that he was there for the 'historic meeting' in the church, but that Paul never played guitar for them at that point, no matter what Paul, John, Pete, Len and Ivan have to say. He thinks John first heard Paul play a few days later when John and Eric went round to Forthlin Road specially for the 'audition'. That's where he thinks Paul played Twenty Flight Rock for the first time.

Beatles fandom is an incredible study in the vagaries of memory. I love it. It's fantastic how little we will ever know.

As Colin Hall (biographer) writes:

Like most bands, they met a lot of new people every time they were booked to play. Often there'd be a lot of people hanging out with them before or after a performance. No wonder that, in the interim, exact memories faded, details disappeared. It would be many years after the event that the Quarry Men would be asked to describe this day in the forensic detail people now want from them. [...] They were not all present in the same places for some of the key moments. At the time it was a fun day, but of no great significance to most of them beyond the moment of their performance.

He also points out that an article published just one week after the fete, ("All the Fun of the Fair at Woolton" in the Liverpool Weekly News) which is an eye-witness report written while everything was still fresh... claimed that Colin wasn't there, and the Quarry Men played without a drummer. Something easily disproved by any photograph of the day.

Give up, surrender! Beatles reporting has been pure fiction from day nought. Nothing is knowable. Everything is mist. You can keep trying, you will get nowhere. Honestly it's all an imagination, so imagine wonderful things.

#pre:fab #colin hanton #rod davis #eric griffiths #the beatles #the quarry men #woolton fete #mclennon day

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kichisaburo3 · 2 months

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John Lennon Quarrymen Playing at Garden Fete on 06 JULY 1957 at St Peter's Church Woolton Liverpool England Reblogged

TAG of BEATLES in my Tumblr https://kichisaburo3.tumblr.com/tagged/BEATLES

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#John Lennon #QuarryMen #Garden Fete at St Peter's Church Woolton Liverpool #1957 #Beatles #The Beatles #The QuarryMen #reblogged

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liverpoollomo · 1 month

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Reynoalds Park. Fed 4. Ilford XP2.

Reynoalds Park was donated to the city of Liverpool by James Reynolds in 1929. Originally home to hios family the mansion house was destroyed by a fire in the mid 1970's and replaced by a housing facility for the elderly. The 14 acre park includes a walled garden, open fields, a topiary garden and an arboretum (which is yet to be completed.)

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julie-wing · 1 year

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