I am the Paulrus
Jun 14, 2006, 10:06 AM
For day sippers
Jun 12 2006
By Catherine Jones Culture Reporter, Liverpool Echo
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Builder Mark Morgan puts the finishing touches to the refurbished Grapes pub in Mathew Street.
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MATHEW Street's legendary Grapes pub is creating a new display dedicated to the 1960s with the help of the Beatles' first manager.
Owners of the historic site, made famous as a favourite drinking hole of the young Beatles, denied they were changing the Grapes' name or reopening it as an artist-run gallery.
Reports in newspapers last week suggested they planned to rename it the Royal Standard.
Instead, owner Paul Bristow, 39, says he is dedicated to preserving both the name and history of the Grapes and is bringing together new memorabilia to go on show.
Mr Bristow, who has run the pub since last July with licensee wife Sue, said: "We've just had new Grapes signs put up outside and we've got absolutely no plans to change the name.
"When I took over I was advised 'don't change it' and I don't intend to. We're putting in new carpet and curtains and reupholstering some of the furniture, butwe're actually putting in more 60s memorabilia."
Regular Allan Williams, the Beatles' first manager, is among those who have donated artefacts for the new display at the pub, which attracts visitors from all over the world as well as being a city "local".
They include copies of original letters from the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, where the Beatles honed their music, and hotel receipts from Scotland where the group - then still the Silver Beatles - played in early 1960.
Other Fab Four-connected items due to be displayed area Beatles magazine first edition, donated by another regular, and a bottle of beer which is brewed by Sir Paul McCartney himself and is only served to his friends and family.
Mr Bristow said: "We've also got an autographed picture of Mick Jagger, and a World Cup 1966 photo signed by Geoff Hurst.
"I love this place for its history.
"So many come in to see where the Beatles sat and I wanted to give them something more to look at."
Jun 12 2006
By Catherine Jones Culture Reporter, Liverpool Echo
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/icliverpool/jun2006/8/7/C8D1E605-B2FD-1554-BE51C3A4CB9721ED.jpg
Builder Mark Morgan puts the finishing touches to the refurbished Grapes pub in Mathew Street.
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0800beatles/0050news/tm_objectid=17217299%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=for%2dday%2dsippers-name_page.html
MATHEW Street's legendary Grapes pub is creating a new display dedicated to the 1960s with the help of the Beatles' first manager.
Owners of the historic site, made famous as a favourite drinking hole of the young Beatles, denied they were changing the Grapes' name or reopening it as an artist-run gallery.
Reports in newspapers last week suggested they planned to rename it the Royal Standard.
Instead, owner Paul Bristow, 39, says he is dedicated to preserving both the name and history of the Grapes and is bringing together new memorabilia to go on show.
Mr Bristow, who has run the pub since last July with licensee wife Sue, said: "We've just had new Grapes signs put up outside and we've got absolutely no plans to change the name.
"When I took over I was advised 'don't change it' and I don't intend to. We're putting in new carpet and curtains and reupholstering some of the furniture, butwe're actually putting in more 60s memorabilia."
Regular Allan Williams, the Beatles' first manager, is among those who have donated artefacts for the new display at the pub, which attracts visitors from all over the world as well as being a city "local".
They include copies of original letters from the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, where the Beatles honed their music, and hotel receipts from Scotland where the group - then still the Silver Beatles - played in early 1960.
Other Fab Four-connected items due to be displayed area Beatles magazine first edition, donated by another regular, and a bottle of beer which is brewed by Sir Paul McCartney himself and is only served to his friends and family.
Mr Bristow said: "We've also got an autographed picture of Mick Jagger, and a World Cup 1966 photo signed by Geoff Hurst.
"I love this place for its history.
"So many come in to see where the Beatles sat and I wanted to give them something more to look at."