Fan Archive Beatles SheffieldRoger – The Azena 1963
My auntie was working in the VIP lounge at Stansted Airport. Four scruffy-looking lads wandered in. She said, “Oi, you can’t come in here.” One of them said, “We’re waiting for somebody, we’ll just wait…
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Barbara and Carol – The City Hall 1963 – 64
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Robert – The Gaumont 1965
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Pat – The City Hall 1964
In 1964 I was just 18 and had started my first term at Sheffield University. I was walking from Barkers Pool when I bumped into a workmate of my ex-boyfriend. He thought we were still…
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Alan, 1963–65 The Azena and City Hall
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Pat – The Azena 1963
Well, obviously, we’d seen them [The Beatles] on television and on this particular day, we went to the pictures, me and my friend Elaine, I can’t remember what we went to see. So these three…
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Sharon – Wings – City Hall 1973
When I went to see Paul McCartney and Wings at the City Hall in 1973 I wore my Biba dress, I still have the ticket somewhere [Sharon found it in her sisters’ old leather purse…
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Sharon – Beatles – City Hall 1964
Our Mam asked our Josie to take me out with her, I’d’ve been 5 or 6. I remember Josie and her friends wearing loads of underskirts under their skirts to make them billow out, and…
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Angela – The Gaumont 1965
“ If this carries on we’ll have to go!“ I was 16 years old, I was in the first year of my job as a cashier. I went with my friend Lynne, we were colleagues…
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