They were booked to play on Saturday May 21, 1960, but failed to show up, deciding to go on a tour of Scotland backing Johnny Gentle instead.īut the Fab Four did return and played 10 times between 19.
Many former customers and fans of The Beatles will know the Lathom Club was the first venue where the band were advertised to appear - under their Silver Beetles name.
But it took on a new lease of life in the sixties when it was revived and became synonymous with Merseybeat.
Opening as a picture house in 1912, the cinema's motto was "come once and you're a regular patron," but four years later it was shut when the arrival of war disrupted business.Īfter WWI, the site was used as a school kitchen before being bought by Crosby Corporation in 1949. A Merseyside club lived many lives before it brought back "the spirit of the sixties."īuilt in 1884, the Lathom Club on Lathom Avenue in Seaforth was first a social hall before it became a cinema.
0 kommentar(er)
