The Early Beatles Trail

A bronze figure sits alone on a stone bench on Stanley Street, hunched forward with a handbag resting on her lap and a shopping bag with a milk bottle at her side. She is an interpretation of the character from the nineteen sixty-six…

The Grapes on Mathew Street stands out for its deep red, cream, and black exterior paint, a color scheme chosen to return the building to its historic appearance. Dating to eighteen hundred and four, the pub was built on the site of an…

The Cavern Club is a narrow, brick-vaulted underground cellar on Mathew Street, recognizable by the steep staircase leading down from the pavement into its arched rooms. Opened on January sixteenth, nineteen fifty-seven, it was originally…

The Epstein Theatre occupies a prominent stone and brick building on Hanover Street, distinguished by a canted corner bay that marks its entrance. Originally opened in nineteen sixteen as Crane’s Concert Hall, it was built above a music…

The Jacaranda occupies a former watch-repair shop on Slater Street, distinguished by the murals still lining its basement walls. Allan Williams, who later became the first manager of The Beatles, opened the venue in September nineteen…

The Blue Angel, known to locals simply as The Raz, is marked by bright blue lettering on its exterior at one hundred six to one hundred eight Seel Street. It opened on March twenty-second, nineteen sixty-one, under the ownership of Allan…

Ye Cracke sits on Rice Street in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter, identifiable by its narrow entrance and a history that stretches back to eighteen sixty-two. Originally opened as The Ruthin Castle, the pub took its current name from a local…

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts occupies a prominent, restored Georgian-era building that once served as the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys. You can identify the site by its historic facade, which now houses a…