Fan Archive Beatles Sheffield

Fan Archive Beatles Sheffield (FABS) is a passion project collecting memories of The Beatles’ visits to Sheffield.

When I started the project, I hoped to collect memories of The Beatles, concerts and the excitement of Beatlemania in the city. Instead, I found myself deeply moved by people’s stories, not only of The Beatles, but of their own lives and of Sheffield during a time of exciting cultural and social change.

All contributions are fully credited (unless contributors wish to remain anonymous) and, with permission, will be permanently donated to Sheffield Archives so they can be preserved as part of the city’s history.

I am delighted that contributors will have their stories celebrated in an exhibition at the Post Hall Gallery in the Head Post Office in spring 2027, bringing together memories, photographs, memorabilia and Sheffield’s Beatles connections.

If you have a memory to share, however small, I’d love to hear from you.

Email: fanarchivebeatlessheffield@gmail.com

Phone: 07710504590

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Latest stories from the archive

  • 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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  • 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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