Beatles Mapped

John Lennon met Paul McCartney on July 6, 1957, when Paul went to hear John’s band, The Quarrymen, play at a village festival at St. Peter’s Parish Church.

Brian Epstein was running the record department of his family’s store when he discovered the Beatles on November 9, 1961, in the Cavern, only a short distance away.

Mona Best, Pete’s Mother, turned the basement into the successful Casbah Club, a teenage coffee house and venue for bands.

The Beatles made the Cavern Club famous, playing nearly 300 shows between February 1961 and August 1963 in the cellar club on tiny Mathew Street in downtown Liverpool.

The Jacaranda Club was owned by Allan Williams, who became the Beatles’ first manager. The Beatles often played, rehearsed and hung out at the ‘Jac’, where Stuart Sutcliffe’s murals can still be seen on the basement walls.