Wow that was amazing. I live about a five minute walk from Arnold Grove. You’re by far the best Beatles location video maker on RUclips. To watch someone walk the streets I walk every day of my life and visit Beatles locations with such knowledge and passion really gets me emotional. And the strawberry fields exhibition was amazing, so relaxing watching that with the classical guitar version of the song. Hopefully there’ll be a part 3 very soon. Take care mate.
Wow mate...what a nice thing to say! It must be amazing for you to walk around those streets on a daily basis knowing the Beatles also kicked about there....especially in their youth! Stay tuned for more Beatles walkabouts. I'm off to London again soon as I've found a few more :-)
@@TudorSmith it is amazing walking round history on a daily basis, and you don’t always appreciate it because it’s just second nature. But a fantastic video like yours brings it all back home to me once again. Thanks for all your hard work. I look forward to your next London one!
@@TudorSmith I also loved your little bit on James Maybrick and the Jack the Ripper case, another fascinating subject. I think you’d be very good doing a Jack the Ripper walkabout around the east end. Or just general stuff on history, you’ve got a very good delivery that’s very relaxing. Makes you listen.
@@TudorSmith Do it!….yes I’ve always thought the subject of Jack the Ripper fascinating too. I think it would suit your style of presentation perfectly.
Tudor: Hi. Hope you're doing fine. Ringo was scheduled to play here in Philly Tuesday Sept. 24th but cancelled the show 4 hours before show time. He's got a cold. Hope he gets better soon. Cheers! 🥨
@@TudorSmith yes 👍 I last saw him in 1989. I know his voice is not 💯 percent now , but he is Mozart of our times. I am looking forward to it….as is the Mrs. The seats are far back but in the middle section. I know he can’t really expand the set list etc…but that’s ok by me. He’s the best ever. Beatles Forever! R.I.P. John and George. Ringo we love ❤️you ! I have to see the All Starr Band one more time too .
If you pause the video @ 33:26, you notice a photo at bottom right corner. That is John (2nd from left), the kid on the left is Peter Sissons the BBC newsreader who was a mate of John and Paul. The other kid, 3rd from right, is Jimmy Tarbuck. I believe the photo was taken at the Cast Iron Shore.
Also includes England footballer Brian Labone who played for and captained Everton. Location is usually said to be a school trip to the Isle of Man in 1951.
The rain just seems so appropriate on this wonderful walk around Liverpool. It seems that most of the old pictures of the Beatles were taken on the wet streets of this old and lovely city.
Just like to add that as long-time massive Beatles fan, I am thoroughly enjoying your Beatle quests and you have taught me facts I didn't know. Keep up the great work Tudor, you are great entertainment for us during these gloomy times! ps I was also born in 1963 - a Fab year indeed to be born!!
Another superb video. On our recent trip, my wife said that old Liverpool resembles old Philadelphia, and I agree. Our next trip will be much more meaningful with your inspiring tips, etc. Can't wait to see all of the videos, plus London.
Thoroughly enjoyed your trip to "sunny" Liverpool. Excellent Lennon exhibition at Strawberry Fields. Curious to know where you take us next. Keep up this great work!!
@@TudorSmith Sounds like you might have already started you’re research! Truly a great video, Tudor! I live England vicariously through your walkabouts!
Another exhaustive video Tudor. Thank you. A welcome find to see you uploaded two new walkabout videos after travelling Scotland for a few weeks. I stopped at Durness where John spent some of his holidays as a child and revisited on the ill-fated trip in 1969. They have established a small memorial garden. Worth seeing if you're travelling the area but not making the long journey for that alone. Looking forward to watching the London walkabout later today as a reward for unpacking!
Wow did you see the actual location where he drove the Maxi into a ditch? When I get around to visiting Scotland again (mostly for my photography channel: ruclips.net/channel/UC9bGudyt0OZBzUVDb2Fhwuwfeatured) then I'll be compiling "Beatles Scotland" locations - although I think for the most part it's just about their early days concerts! I hope you had a good time in Scotland. I grew up there from age 4-13 and always feel like I'm going home (a nice reference to Local Hero there) 😊
STRONGLY recommend you all check out the International Pop Overthrow Festival when it calls Liverpool in May, at both The Cavern Club and Pub venues! I went over May 2022 from Florida, with my Detroit-based mates, The Incurables to play it (105 bands, 8 days, all original music) - finally a musical pilgrimage, during my 12th visit to Liverpool since 1990.
Yep definitely worth a visit. I’ve not done the Beatle story or the Fab Four can your or even the Magical Mystery Bus tour (the Liverpool one) and I’m sure they are excellent, but the freedom of the Strawberry Fields exhibition is quite liberating. As I mentioned in my video it was quite emotional. I think for me, it’s knowing John was murdered and so his already troubled life was cut so short without him being able to grow old gracefully, and the exhibition brought that home to me!
Then you were at a loss for words seeing the handwritten lyrics. Somehow that triggers a memory of something I read once that while filming the movie 'Help', the lads tended to party all night in the Bahamas. As it story read, Paul suddenly had a vision of world peace and quickly wrote it down...but the next morning it was all gibberish. Ever hear that one?
I’ve not heard of that. McCartney has a habit of remembering things he has written and then incorporates them years later into songs. I wonder if that idea you talk about ended up in “Peace in the Neighbourhood” on the Off The Ground album?
@@TudorSmith No clue...but I have so many coffee table books about the Beatles that the weight of them could collapse the table itself. Otherwise I'd gladly quote from where I read it. Sounds feasible though.
I was in two minds about including it on a Beatles video but since it seems one of the only likely habitats of a ripper suspect it just had to be done!
Thanks Tudor, what a great video, when i went to Strawberry Fields in 2009 it wasn't open to the public so i only got to stand at the red gates and take a photo. When you were in Mathew Street i was waiting for you to walk down to where NEMS was but, instead, you were off to show us other locations. Thanks for the cast iron shore lyric explanation, it makes more sense now. I look forward to part 3.
Wow what a transformation to strawberry fields remember visiting in 2019 whilst work was being undertaken looks amazing also the beatles museum in Mathew Street love your videos thank you for uploading reminds me of fab four taxi tour we did back 2009 great to see new exhibitions being done
@@TudorSmith back in 2017 when we did mendips and forthlin road the houses when we're being built opposite strawberry fields then in 2019 it was a building site think I have a photo somewhere
I spoke with one of the members of staff and she said they completed the renovations about one month before the U.K. went into lockdown. When I visited last month they’d only just reopened to the public a month is so previously.
On 15th December, the Sunday after John's death, there was a memorial concert held outside St George's Hall in Liverpool. I was there as a 17 year old standing on the steps in the cold from around 11.00 with another 30,000 others while bands played Beatle songs. There was a little bother when a lot of girls were overcome with it all and pushed forward into the band and the music stopped to be replaced with recorded music over the sound system. 30,000 of us singing along to Give Peace a Chance. There was another memorial taking place in New York's Central Park at the same time and at 7.00pm (2.00pm New York time) a ten minute silence was held simultaneously. After that I made my way down Lime Street singing Maggie May, to the railway station and went home, the hundred miles or so to the West Midlands. It was my first big event and was organised by Sam Leach who would book Liverpool bands in the early 60s. Theres very little about this memorial event to be found now and I've never seen any photos of it. I know what Tudor Smith means by early Beatledom all being in black and white. Even in 1980, to me as a teenager, grown up with colour telly in the dayglo 70s, it all looked as distant in time as WW2 and 1930s Pathe news reels, as if it had happened in an alternative reality despite it all happening less than 20 years before.
I was in Central Park in NYC for John's memorial. And I will never forget those ten minutes of silence. Imagine how odd it was to not hear a sound during those minutes. Not a siren, not a horn, nothing except a news helicopter high overhead. And even that was only for a moment. I am getting a bit emotional about it because not in anyone's imagination could there have been such a scene. Here's something else amazing that I just remembered. It was a beautiful sunny day with no wind before and during. Five minutes after the memorial ended a wild blizzard came through. The wind driven snow was so heavy that you could barely see across the street. And then, five minutes later, it ended and the Sun came back out and it was a glorious sunny day again. I know it sounds like fiction but I swear it's true.
Nice work Tudor. I always learn something new with your videos. I follow along using Google Earth. I never new the full story about Strawberry Fields. Thanks so much.
I’m so glad you get something from my videos. It’s a funny thing filming all by yourself talking to camera, imagining there’s an audience immediately there. Ha you should see the cutting room floor - so much is edited out 🤣
Hi Tudor. Excelled once again . What a great video and insight from your latest visit to Beatle landmarks in Liverpool. Loved all the stories you told from this visit in particular the George bits and the emotional visit to strawberry fields. It’s a while since I last visited but will definitely seek out Strawberry Fields. Really looking forward to your next visit to Liverpool with the quarry men and casbah in your thoughts. Thank you for researching and for giving us all so much enjoyment.
Fantastic video. I make my annual pilgrimage to Liverpool to do "The Beatles" thing whenever I get home from the States... I now have a few new places to add to my next few trips!
Great stuff. I’m in Kent so the visits to Liverpool are sporadic for me too but I always like visiting a few Beatle locations whenever I’m up there. I must do another video up there as there are still quite a few to chalk off 👍
@@TudorSmith I also happen to play in a Beatles cover band (“The Mercy Beats”) and the rest of the band gets a kick out of my accounts of my Liverpool travels. I was quick to share with them the links to your excellent videos!
Great job again, Tudor. Lots of videos of The Beatles’ Liverpool, yet you managed to present something quite different and your style works a treat. I lived on Falkner St when I was a post grad at Liverpool. Opposite Brian’s place.
Matt, that's a great anecdote. I need to compile a video of people's anecdotes as I think that would be more interesting than reading an article in the Daily Mail which covers the same old same old information we've all read a hundred times before!
@@TudorSmith I haven’t been to Liverpool for a while. The Strawberry Fields Exhibition is new to me, and you have made me put it on my list for my next visit. It was always a slight disappointment, just to see the gates and imagine John’s place of escape and adventure. Sorry about the northern weather, I trust you are happily back in balmy Kent 🏝
Yep. Back in sunny (literally) Kent! The Salvation Army have done a wonderful job with the exhibition. They were scheduled to open in 2020 but the pandemic halted that. Now that it's fully open it's going to be a definite "must see" location for Beatles tourists. I think they will reap the benefits of their hard work for years to come. Only seeing the gates and nothing else is a little like seeing the Abbey Road crossing, but not being allowed to go into the studios. Understandable as it's still a thriving business and they wouldn't want tourists trapsing around the studio. Now that we can go into the grounds of Strawberry Fields and also see the exhibition, it brings it more to life!
Epic tour, Tudor! I appreciate you showing the minutiae that makes your tours so interesting. Who cares about a replica Cavern, show me the “Royal Iris”!! Can’t wait for the Quarreymen tour!!!
Hola Tudor!!! Soy de Argentina y tuve la suerte de visitar Liverpool en junio 2011 y recorrí prácticamente todo en un tour de cuatro horas, inolvidable para mí, pero lo que estas mostrando es muy interesante,sobre todo lugares de ellos que vos señalas!!! Viví la década del 60 comprando los discos en tiempo real imagínate lo que fue para mí estar ahí!!!! Desde Argentina te mando un afectuoso Abrazo!!!!
Hola Eduardo. Puedo imaginar cómo te sentiste visitando Liverpool. Debe haber sido emocionante para ti. Nunca he hecho el recorrido de cuatro horas. Apuesto a que es realmente bueno.
John would climb over the back wall of Strawberry Field on Vale Road, it’s ‘nothing but a housing estate’ now! Of course when John was young, the gardens of Strawberry Field were much larger, and the size began to decrease in the 1970s due to a lack of funding to ensure upkeep of the land; Liverpool Council bought the land to develop on it, into what it is now. Vale Road is directly to the side of 251 Menlove Ave, so John really would have been able to see the house from his tree.
Thanks for that info. The kind of stuff you don't read on a website. I'd love to sit with people and hear their stories and information that no one else thinks about!
As a Beatles fan, it is a privilege to have found a space with the perfect ingredients: illustrative videos + charisma + fun storytelling with differentiating facts + due research. THANK YOU ALWAYS. Cheers from CDMX!
You could have stopped at the Grapes Pub on Matthew Street. That pub served alcohol. the Grapes was across the street from the Cavern which did not sell alcohol on soda. The Beatles made many visits to the Grapes Pub.
Great video mate. Lots of interesting locations all around my childhood area. There's a book called Pre Fab by Quarryman drummer Colin Hanton. Might be worth you checking it out for your future video. Look forward to seeing it
Thank you again Tudor for another fantastic tour, I loved every minute of it and also thanks for the strawberry fields tour. This means so much to us who are unable to ever travel to Liverpool to see it personally.
Thank you for the really interesting video. I visited Liverpool in 2017 for 24 hours (it was raining then too!) but there's obviously so much more to see - including what looks like an excellent Lennon exhibition.
@@TudorSmith I think a deep dive into the Quarrymen would be really cool. I read Pete Shotton’s book way back when as a teenager in the 80’s about Lennon and the Quarrymen. I think he died in 2017. I enjoy your Vlog’s all the way from America, Florida to be exact and you enthusiasm for the Beatles makes it even more enjoyable.
thank you so munch for all of your fabulous tour on your walk about i love the Beatles and i love hearing you tell about the stories keep up the great job TIDOR
FYI-found this, Tudor... "The Cavern Club now sits at a 90 degree angle to the original and covers 70% of the original Cavern footprint, the stage is not far from the original location, and the 'Live Lounge' is an exact replica of the original, using as many of the old bricks as possible."
Another great film, well done, folk don't realise the prep and research that goes into videos like this, I make some here in York and it's really quite hard work, even after the shooting is done to edit and do the overlays etc. I like your technique and approach which flows smoothly despite the hard work! Cheers
Your correct English is much better as mine is not weird actually I lived on the island only for about -14 years - but as you say in your vlog - you are a master - I hope you will understand the compliment
Hi Tudor. This video is certainly your masterpiece. There are so many information combined with emotions which encourages me do again a trip to Liverpool. I enjoyed every minute! Thank you so much! Where in Germany have you lived one year?
Masterpiece? Don't say that, otherwise I'll be unable to top it! I like to think that my walkabouts actually provide a geographical/visual spin on the locations so people can see them rather than stare at a single picture and try and imagine the locations. I lived in Hemmenhofen, which sits on lake Bodensee! :-)
If you ever do a future video about the Quarrymen...then i'm your man. I can take you to places were they lived and played...including the route they took on the 6th July 1957 (the pic with them on the back of a wagon going down Kings Drive) Places they played ...Gateacre Institute....Lee Park Golf course etc.
The original entrance to the Cavern is now the fire escape. If the original Cavern was still there, it would be a fire trap, so it would have been forced to extend to the size it is now.
Hi Tudor ! Just subscribed! Is there any way I can email you some information/photos (you may find useful) regarding Beatles/Liverpool? Enjoy all your videos! Best wishes Albert
Boa tarde senhor Smith! Possivelmente poderia acompanhar um grupo de turistas, sendo então, solicitado seus serviços como guia, exclusivamente mostrando lugares que os Beatles frequentavam naquela época
Boa noite Smith grande prazer! Evidentemente trata-se de um trabalho, isto é indiscutívelmente até porque,as pessoas quando então, precisa de um guia turístico. Logicamente que há necessidade, aliás deve-se comprar bem, além do mais, poderia designar um motorista de táxi de sua inteira confiança ainda por cima na pausa alimentar ser convidado juntamente com o motorista , para almoça e jantar com o grupo Em janeiro estaria programando de conhecer Liverpool,mas também não ficaria somente restrito de conhecer os lugares que os Beatles frequentavam. A Cadetral de Liverpool assim como a tal história do Titanic. Um grande abraço e Deus o ilumine sempre. Você é uma pessoa muito generoso
James Maybrick - I always stay in the Aigburth area, near Sefton Park & Lark Lane (lots of good eating & pints there!). Ironically, his wife Florence was tried & found guilty of killing James. The trial was deemed a bit dodgy, her death sentenced commuted & she was eventually released.
Yes a tragic twist of fate there for Florence. The diaries are much debunked although Bruce Robinson spins a good yarn pointing to James Maybrick’s brother Michael as the writer of the diaries and also being the ripper. Will we ever know?
Brilliant Tudor, well done. Thanks for the name check...lol, I told you the weather wouldn't be in your favour on Wednesday! The sun is cracking the flags here today! Glad you got to so many different places and I hope you enjoyed your trip to my home town. Funny how you mentioned living in Sweden and Norway, I too lived in Sweden and Denmark for several years in the mid Eighties to 1990 and married a Danish girl. We came back to Liverpool and settled here. If you will permit me, take a look at this wonderful piece of footage of Bob Wooler and the Royal Iris on my channel...ruclips.net/video/v2ALNO4sFG8/видео.html (Please delete if you don't like links to other videos on your channel) Once again, very well done on a great video.
Wow that was amazing. I live about a five minute walk from Arnold Grove. You’re by far the best Beatles location video maker on RUclips. To watch someone walk the streets I walk every day of my life and visit Beatles locations with such knowledge and passion really gets me emotional. And the strawberry fields exhibition was amazing, so relaxing watching that with the classical guitar version of the song. Hopefully there’ll be a part 3 very soon. Take care mate.
Wow mate...what a nice thing to say! It must be amazing for you to walk around those streets on a daily basis knowing the Beatles also kicked about there....especially in their youth! Stay tuned for more Beatles walkabouts. I'm off to London again soon as I've found a few more :-)
@@TudorSmith it is amazing walking round history on a daily basis, and you don’t always appreciate it because it’s just second nature. But a fantastic video like yours brings it all back home to me once again. Thanks for all your hard work. I look forward to your next London one!
@@TudorSmith I also loved your little bit on James Maybrick and the Jack the Ripper case, another fascinating subject. I think you’d be very good doing a Jack the Ripper walkabout around the east end. Or just general stuff on history, you’ve got a very good delivery that’s very relaxing. Makes you listen.
Hmmm. Now you’ve given me good for thought. I’ve always found the Jack the Ripper story fascinating.
@@TudorSmith Do it!….yes I’ve always thought the subject of Jack the Ripper fascinating too. I think it would suit your style of presentation perfectly.
What a wonderful journey. The last section on Strawberry Fields with the connections for John was so moving I cried. Thank you.
I must admit the exhibition moved me too!
Tudor: Hi. Hope you're doing fine. Ringo was scheduled to play here in Philly Tuesday Sept. 24th but cancelled the show 4 hours before show time. He's got a cold. Hope he gets better soon. Cheers! 🥨
Oh no! What a shame for him having to cancel. Music really is his passion. I hope it is just a fleeting cold!
Another great walking tour! You are a born storyteller! The Strawberry Fields exhibit was emotionally powerful. Thank you again!
Thank you. Yes I found the exhibition to be quite emotional.
I got tickets to see Paul June 16 in NJ 😊
Exciting times 🎵
@@TudorSmith yes 👍
I last saw him in 1989.
I know his voice is not 💯 percent now , but he is Mozart of our times.
I am looking forward to it….as is the Mrs.
The seats are far back but in the middle section.
I know he can’t really expand the set list etc…but that’s ok by me. He’s the best ever.
Beatles Forever!
R.I.P. John and George.
Ringo we love ❤️you !
I have to see the All Starr Band one more time too .
You’ll enjoy the Rock Show!
Was over from NZ in July did the bus tours. great to see you show us all these other lesser known sites of interest Thanks excellent vid
Thank you so much Tudor. Another marvellous video. You're a Great Man.
Thank you Jose. Much appreciated 👍
If you pause the video @ 33:26, you notice a photo at bottom right corner. That is John (2nd from left), the kid on the left is Peter Sissons the BBC newsreader who was a mate of John and Paul. The other kid, 3rd from right, is Jimmy Tarbuck. I believe the photo was taken at the Cast Iron Shore.
I'll have to take a wee look again!
Also includes England footballer Brian Labone who played for and captained Everton. Location is usually said to be a school trip to the Isle of Man in 1951.
I love your delivery. There is absolutely nothing pretentious about you. I imagine it would be a wonderful experience to walk those streets with you.
Maybe I should start a tour guide company lol! Seriosuly though, thank you.
Wonderful video... Especially strawberry fields. Thank you ...
Another great video, having been to strawberry fields, i found the exhibition and the gardens very emotional. Looking forward to your quarrymen video.
I totally agree. I was moved!
The rain just seems so appropriate on this wonderful walk around Liverpool. It seems that most of the old pictures of the Beatles were taken on the wet streets of this old and lovely city.
Just like to add that as long-time massive Beatles fan, I am thoroughly enjoying your Beatle quests and you have taught me facts I didn't know. Keep up the great work Tudor, you are great entertainment for us during these gloomy times! ps I was also born in 1963 - a Fab year indeed to be born!!
Thanks so much. I’m glad you’re getting something from my videos 👍 Ah 1963 - I remember it well lol!
Another superb video. On our recent trip, my wife said that old Liverpool resembles old Philadelphia, and I agree. Our next trip will be much more meaningful with your inspiring tips, etc. Can't wait to see all of the videos, plus London.
Hopefully you’ll get something from the videos. Saves having to do your own research 😀
The wife and I will be in Liverpool in late April, can't wait to see all the sights.
Excellent. You're going to love it!
I enjoyed watching this. Nice video, well presented and informative. Thanks! :D
Thanks for watching. I’m glad you found it informative 👍
tv was boring so jumped on youtube and came across you, glad I did I had an entertaining and interesting evening. Thanks.
Thanks Roger. I find my evenings are often spent on RUclips too (not watching my own videos though 🤣)
Thoroughly enjoyed your trip to "sunny" Liverpool. Excellent Lennon exhibition at Strawberry Fields. Curious to know where you take us next. Keep up this great work!!
Thanks so much Ken. I’ll get my thinking cap on!
Great video again! And of course there was this ghost of John walking in front of you at about 14:07 :-)
Yes it could have been - probably an arty type student though 🤣
@@TudorSmith I guess that is possible too.. :)
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Great walkabout, Tudor! One on the Quarrymen would be great! Lots of story there, brother!
That would be cool eh? Best I start some research :-)
@@TudorSmith Sounds like you might have already started you’re research! Truly a great video, Tudor! I live England vicariously through your walkabouts!
Well then Michael…roll up, roll up!
Another exhaustive video Tudor. Thank you. A welcome find to see you uploaded two new walkabout videos after travelling Scotland for a few weeks. I stopped at Durness where John spent some of his holidays as a child and revisited on the ill-fated trip in 1969. They have established a small memorial garden. Worth seeing if you're travelling the area but not making the long journey for that alone. Looking forward to watching the London walkabout later today as a reward for unpacking!
Wow did you see the actual location where he drove the Maxi into a ditch? When I get around to visiting Scotland again (mostly for my photography channel: ruclips.net/channel/UC9bGudyt0OZBzUVDb2Fhwuwfeatured) then I'll be compiling "Beatles Scotland" locations - although I think for the most part it's just about their early days concerts!
I hope you had a good time in Scotland. I grew up there from age 4-13 and always feel like I'm going home (a nice reference to Local Hero there) 😊
STRONGLY recommend you all check out the International Pop Overthrow Festival when it calls Liverpool in May, at both The Cavern Club and Pub venues!
I went over May 2022 from Florida, with my Detroit-based mates, The Incurables to play it (105 bands, 8 days, all original music) - finally a musical pilgrimage, during my 12th visit to Liverpool since 1990.
must have to get down to the strawberry fields exhibition looks good
dont mind a bit of deep purple in 1976 i was 16
Yep definitely worth a visit. I’ve not done the Beatle story or the Fab Four can your or even the Magical Mystery Bus tour (the Liverpool one) and I’m sure they are excellent, but the freedom of the Strawberry Fields exhibition is quite liberating. As I mentioned in my video it was quite emotional. I think for me, it’s knowing John was murdered and so his already troubled life was cut so short without him being able to grow old gracefully, and the exhibition brought that home to me!
Hahaha, I loved how you slipped that 'End of part one' intermission then the end of part two immediately afterwards. Delightful 👍
Then you were at a loss for words seeing the handwritten lyrics. Somehow that triggers a memory of something I read once that while filming the movie 'Help', the lads tended to party all night in the Bahamas. As it story read, Paul suddenly had a vision of world peace and quickly wrote it down...but the next morning it was all gibberish. Ever hear that one?
Yeah I thought I’d slip that in 🤣
I’ve not heard of that. McCartney has a habit of remembering things he has written and then incorporates them years later into songs. I wonder if that idea you talk about ended up in “Peace in the Neighbourhood” on the Off The Ground album?
@@TudorSmith No clue...but I have so many coffee table books about the Beatles that the weight of them could collapse the table itself. Otherwise I'd gladly quote from where I read it. Sounds feasible though.
Nice little sidetrip to battlecrease, thanks.
I was in two minds about including it on a Beatles video but since it seems one of the only likely habitats of a ripper suspect it just had to be done!
Enjoyed it Tudor. Thanks.
Thanks so much!
I just can't understand why the original Cavern was destroyed. Madness!
Yeah it’s such a shame. The things they do for progress!
Thanks Tudor, what a great video, when i went to Strawberry Fields in 2009 it wasn't open to the public so i only got to stand at the red gates and take a photo. When you were in Mathew Street i was waiting for you to walk down to where NEMS was but, instead, you were off to show us other locations. Thanks for the cast iron shore lyric explanation, it makes more sense now. I look forward to part 3.
Oh yeah - the NEMS office. I’ve still not found it 🤣
I’d not seen or read anything about the Cast Iron Shore so I thought I’d share it 👍
Hey Tudor! Go to Royce In The House! He invited me to a live chat, and I mention your excellent channel!
I'll check it out. Will you attend the live chat?
@@TudorSmith Yeah at about 1:18:18 ish!
Touching
Wow what a transformation to strawberry fields remember visiting in 2019 whilst work was being undertaken looks amazing also the beatles museum in Mathew Street love your videos thank you for uploading reminds me of fab four taxi tour we did back 2009 great to see new exhibitions being done
Glad my video brought back memories for you. I never saw SF before the transformation so I can’t compare but I found it pretty amazing 👍
@@TudorSmith back in 2017 when we did mendips and forthlin road the houses when we're being built opposite strawberry fields then in 2019 it was a building site think I have a photo somewhere
I spoke with one of the members of staff and she said they completed the renovations about one month before the U.K. went into lockdown. When I visited last month they’d only just reopened to the public a month is so previously.
On 15th December, the Sunday after John's death, there was a memorial concert held outside St George's Hall in Liverpool. I was there as a 17 year old standing on the steps in the cold from around 11.00 with another 30,000 others while bands played Beatle songs. There was a little bother when a lot of girls were overcome with it all and pushed forward into the band and the music stopped to be replaced with recorded music over the sound system. 30,000 of us singing along to Give Peace a Chance. There was another memorial taking place in New York's Central Park at the same time and at 7.00pm (2.00pm New York time) a ten minute silence was held simultaneously. After that I made my way down Lime Street singing Maggie May, to the railway station and went home, the hundred miles or so to the West Midlands. It was my first big event and was organised by Sam Leach who would book Liverpool bands in the early 60s. Theres very little about this memorial event to be found now and I've never seen any photos of it. I know what Tudor Smith means by early Beatledom all being in black and white. Even in 1980, to me as a teenager, grown up with colour telly in the dayglo 70s, it all looked as distant in time as WW2 and 1930s Pathe news reels, as if it had happened in an alternative reality despite it all happening less than 20 years before.
What an amazing story! Thanks for sharing that!
I was at the one in NYC.
I was in Central Park in NYC for John's memorial. And I will never forget those ten minutes of silence. Imagine how odd it was to not hear a sound during those minutes. Not a siren, not a horn, nothing except a news helicopter high overhead. And even that was only for a moment. I am getting a bit emotional about it because not in anyone's imagination could there have been such a scene.
Here's something else amazing that I just remembered. It was a beautiful sunny day with no wind before and during. Five minutes after the memorial ended a wild blizzard came through. The wind driven snow was so heavy that you could barely see across the street. And then, five minutes later, it ended and the Sun came back out and it was a glorious sunny day again. I know it sounds like fiction but I swear it's true.
Nice work Tudor. I always learn something new with your videos. I follow along using Google Earth. I never new the full story about Strawberry Fields. Thanks so much.
I’m so glad you get something from my videos. It’s a funny thing filming all by yourself talking to camera, imagining there’s an audience immediately there. Ha you should see the cutting room floor - so much is edited out 🤣
Can i just say thankyou this really was great.
Thanks very much. I’m glad you enjoyed it 👍
Hi Tudor.
Excelled once again . What a great video and insight from your latest visit to Beatle landmarks in Liverpool. Loved all the stories you told from this visit in particular the George bits and the emotional visit to strawberry fields. It’s a while since I last visited but will definitely seek out Strawberry Fields. Really looking forward to your next visit to Liverpool with the quarry men and casbah in your thoughts. Thank you for researching and for giving us all so much enjoyment.
Thanks Steve. Glad you enjoyed it. It was certainly a moving visit for me!
Fantastic video. I make my annual pilgrimage to Liverpool to do "The Beatles" thing whenever I get home from the States... I now have a few new places to add to my next few trips!
Great stuff. I’m in Kent so the visits to Liverpool are sporadic for me too but I always like visiting a few Beatle locations whenever I’m up there. I must do another video up there as there are still quite a few to chalk off 👍
@@TudorSmith I also happen to play in a Beatles cover band (“The Mercy Beats”) and the rest of the band gets a kick out of my accounts of my Liverpool travels. I was quick to share with them the links to your excellent videos!
Great job again, Tudor. Lots of videos of The Beatles’ Liverpool, yet you managed to present something quite different and your style works a treat.
I lived on Falkner St when I was a post grad at Liverpool. Opposite Brian’s place.
Matt, that's a great anecdote. I need to compile a video of people's anecdotes as I think that would be more interesting than reading an article in the Daily Mail which covers the same old same old information we've all read a hundred times before!
@@TudorSmith I haven’t been to Liverpool for a while. The Strawberry Fields Exhibition is new to me, and you have made me put it on my list for my next visit. It was always a slight disappointment, just to see the gates and imagine John’s place of escape and adventure. Sorry about the northern weather, I trust you are happily back in balmy Kent 🏝
Yep. Back in sunny (literally) Kent! The Salvation Army have done a wonderful job with the exhibition. They were scheduled to open in 2020 but the pandemic halted that. Now that it's fully open it's going to be a definite "must see" location for Beatles tourists. I think they will reap the benefits of their hard work for years to come.
Only seeing the gates and nothing else is a little like seeing the Abbey Road crossing, but not being allowed to go into the studios. Understandable as it's still a thriving business and they wouldn't want tourists trapsing around the studio. Now that we can go into the grounds of Strawberry Fields and also see the exhibition, it brings it more to life!
Tudor, thank you for these wonderful video tours. They are joyful, refreshing and really exciting for all Beatles fans.
Thank you. I’m glad you’re enjoying them 🙏
Epic tour, Tudor! I appreciate you showing the minutiae that makes your tours so interesting. Who cares about a replica Cavern, show me the “Royal Iris”!! Can’t wait for the Quarreymen tour!!!
Thank you! I'm excited about putting together something about the Quarrymen and the birth of the Beatles.
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I hope you can make it one day 👍
Excellent!
Thank you!
Hola Tudor!!! Soy de Argentina y tuve la suerte de visitar Liverpool en junio 2011 y recorrí prácticamente todo en un tour de cuatro horas, inolvidable para mí, pero lo que estas mostrando es muy interesante,sobre todo lugares de ellos que vos señalas!!! Viví la década del 60 comprando los discos en tiempo real imagínate lo que fue para mí estar ahí!!!! Desde Argentina te mando un afectuoso Abrazo!!!!
Hola Eduardo. Puedo imaginar cómo te sentiste visitando Liverpool. Debe haber sido emocionante para ti. Nunca he hecho el recorrido de cuatro horas. Apuesto a que es realmente bueno.
Amazing, thank you so much!
You're very welcome!
Deffo enough material for a part 3 Tudor. The Casbah!!
You keep pushing the Cashbah, and I might just pay it a visit ;-)
@@TudorSmith . yes, it's worth a visit.
Móna Best mãe de Pete Best construiu um porão cujo este porão ficava exatamente do teremo que foi construído a casa
The Casbah
Lovely Help intermission ❤️
You picked up on it 👍
Will try and be here, babysitting but this part two looks fascinating :D
John would climb over the back wall of Strawberry Field on Vale Road, it’s ‘nothing but a housing estate’ now! Of course when John was young, the gardens of Strawberry Field were much larger, and the size began to decrease in the 1970s due to a lack of funding to ensure upkeep of the land; Liverpool Council bought the land to develop on it, into what it is now. Vale Road is directly to the side of 251 Menlove Ave, so John really would have been able to see the house from his tree.
Thanks for that info. The kind of stuff you don't read on a website. I'd love to sit with people and hear their stories and information that no one else thinks about!
As a Beatles fan, it is a privilege to have found a space with the perfect ingredients: illustrative videos + charisma + fun storytelling with differentiating facts + due research. THANK YOU ALWAYS. Cheers from CDMX!
Wow, thank you!
Thanks for the tour, enjoyed every minute.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
You could have stopped at the Grapes Pub on Matthew Street. That pub served alcohol. the Grapes was across the street from the Cavern which did not sell alcohol on soda. The Beatles made many visits to the Grapes Pub.
Ah yes I missed that one. I believe they have a seating area in there dedicated to the Beatles too!
@@TudorSmith Yes they do. Went on the tour in Liverpool back in July of 1987. Took the train from London to Lime Street station.
There is a very powerful spiritual vibration (of John?) at Strawberry Field.. you obviously experienced it, as most visitors do. Magic.
I was certainly moved at the visitor centre. I strangely feel a strong connection whenever I’m in Liverpool!
Great video mate. Lots of interesting locations all around my childhood area.
There's a book called Pre Fab by Quarryman drummer Colin Hanton. Might be worth you checking it out for your future video. Look forward to seeing it
Thanks for the tip - I’ll check it out 👍
Também de Eric Grafite,Peter Shoton (recebeu de presente de John um supermercado)
Tudor i think your vidios are great and i was there
Thanks so much. Glad you like them 👍
Thank you again Tudor for another fantastic tour, I loved every minute of it and also thanks for the strawberry fields tour. This means so much to us who are unable to ever travel to Liverpool to see it personally.
Glad you liked it Paul. It didn’t turn out as bad as I was expecting considering the weather ☔️ 😊
Thank you for the really interesting video. I visited Liverpool in 2017 for 24 hours (it was raining then too!) but there's obviously so much more to see - including what looks like an excellent Lennon exhibition.
it doesn't always rain there...honest :-)
That little JL exhibition is definitely worth a visit.
I really enjoyed your second tour of Liverpool as much as the first one. I’m sure a third would be just as fun. Thank you for your excellent work.
I think maybe a third will start with Quarrymen and morph into some remaining Beatle locations I’ve still to find 🤣
@@TudorSmith I think a deep dive into the Quarrymen would be really cool. I read Pete Shotton’s book way back when as a teenager in the 80’s about Lennon and the Quarrymen. I think he died in 2017. I enjoy your Vlog’s all the way from America, Florida to be exact and you enthusiasm for the Beatles makes it even more enjoyable.
Thank you so much for doing these ‘walkabouts’. I always wanted to go there but it appears that that’s not going to happen…great job!
Thanks for watching Mark. I'm glad you found it enjoyable 👍
thank you so munch for all of your fabulous tour on your walk about i love the Beatles and i love hearing you tell about the stories keep up the great job TIDOR
FYI-found this, Tudor...
"The Cavern Club now sits at a 90 degree angle to the original and covers 70% of the original Cavern footprint, the stage is not far from the original location, and the 'Live Lounge' is an exact replica of the original, using as many of the old bricks as possible."
As a fan and been to Liverpool Regularly i love their history. And you bring a Atmospheric feel to your tour thanks 🙏
Thank you 🙏 I always feel like I’m spiritually with them when I’m walking about those locations 😊
Seria torcedor do Everton de DIXIE DEAN
Another great film, well done, folk don't realise the prep and research that goes into videos like this, I make some here in York and it's really quite hard work, even after the shooting is done to edit and do the overlays etc. I like your technique and approach which flows smoothly despite the hard work! Cheers
Indeed. A lot of effort but equally a lot of love and passion! It's not like work is it 🤣🤣
I find a little "like" always encourages me!
Your correct English is much better as mine is not weird actually I lived on the island only for about -14 years - but as you say in your vlog - you are a master - I hope you will understand the compliment
Thank you for the compliment Mario. Keep
Going with the English. It’s fine
Hi Tudor. This video is certainly your masterpiece. There are so many information combined with emotions which encourages me do again a trip to Liverpool. I enjoyed every minute! Thank you so much! Where in Germany have you lived one year?
Masterpiece? Don't say that, otherwise I'll be unable to top it! I like to think that my walkabouts actually provide a geographical/visual spin on the locations so people can see them rather than stare at a single picture and try and imagine the locations.
I lived in Hemmenhofen, which sits on lake Bodensee! :-)
Dublin Street is also the location of a famous Bob Dylan photo.
That’s cool
If you ever do a future video about the Quarrymen...then i'm your man.
I can take you to places were they lived and played...including the route they took on the 6th July 1957 (the pic with them on the back of a wagon going down Kings Drive)
Places they played ...Gateacre Institute....Lee Park Golf course etc.
Sounds good. I’ll be in touch if and when I make some plans 👍
My mate Alex's Mum is a volunteer at Strawberry Fields - hope you had a legit bowl of scouse while you were there.
I just love you
The original entrance to the Cavern is now the fire escape. If the original Cavern was still there, it would be a fire trap, so it would have been forced to extend to the size it is now.
Good thing it relocated eh?
When was this done?as there are double doors with a plaque saying it was the original part of the cavern,I saw it myself.
I filmed this in May
@@TudorSmith was it may 2022,as I saw the doors in 2005.
Yes
Hi Tudor ! Just subscribed! Is there any way I can email you some information/photos (you may find useful) regarding Beatles/Liverpool?
Enjoy all your videos!
Best wishes
Albert
Boa tarde senhor Smith!
Possivelmente poderia acompanhar um grupo de turistas, sendo então, solicitado seus serviços como guia, exclusivamente mostrando lugares que os Beatles frequentavam naquela época
Isso seria interessante. Eu me pergunto se as pessoas me pagariam para fazer isso 😂
Boa noite Smith grande prazer!
Evidentemente trata-se de um trabalho, isto é indiscutívelmente até porque,as pessoas quando então, precisa de um guia turístico. Logicamente que há necessidade, aliás deve-se comprar bem, além do mais, poderia designar um motorista de táxi de sua inteira confiança ainda por cima na pausa alimentar ser convidado juntamente com o motorista , para almoça e jantar com o grupo
Em janeiro estaria programando de conhecer Liverpool,mas também não ficaria somente restrito de conhecer os lugares que os Beatles frequentavam. A Cadetral de Liverpool assim como a tal história do Titanic. Um grande abraço e Deus o ilumine sempre. Você é uma pessoa muito generoso
They had John's piano at the Beatles story,as George Micheal had owned it.but the Beatles story had changed.
James Maybrick - I always stay in the Aigburth area, near Sefton Park & Lark Lane (lots of good eating & pints there!). Ironically, his wife Florence was tried & found guilty of killing James. The trial was deemed a bit dodgy, her death sentenced commuted & she was eventually released.
Yes a tragic twist of fate there for Florence. The diaries are much debunked although Bruce Robinson spins a good yarn pointing to James Maybrick’s brother Michael as the writer of the diaries and also being the ripper. Will we ever know?
Why is there no plague commemorating where George was born at 12 Arnold Grove? ☹️
I’ve no idea. There should be one!
Gostaria muito que mostrasse a rua SOLVA NÚMERO 03 EVERTON quando então morava Jim pai de Paul com irmão Ron
Eu nem pensei nisso. Talvez um para um vídeo futuro 👍
Um dos motivos que Paul passou a torcer para o Everton F.C
Brilliant Tudor, well done. Thanks for the name check...lol, I told you the weather wouldn't be in your favour on Wednesday! The sun is cracking the flags here today!
Glad you got to so many different places and I hope you enjoyed your trip to my home town. Funny how you mentioned living in Sweden and Norway, I too lived in Sweden and Denmark for several years in the mid Eighties to 1990 and married a Danish girl. We came back to Liverpool and settled here.
If you will permit me, take a look at this wonderful piece of footage of Bob Wooler and the Royal Iris on my channel...ruclips.net/video/v2ALNO4sFG8/видео.html
(Please delete if you don't like links to other videos on your channel)
Once again, very well done on a great video.
We have a lot in common lol! I don’t mind links at all. It all boosts the interest eh?
Typical the sun shine after Wednesday ☀️
@@TudorSmith lol, typical