ROLL up! Roll up for the Magical History Tour!

My email has been red hot since I first wrote about the Beatles in Warrington a couple of weeks ago.

As you may recall, I’d heard rumours all four Beatles were visitors to the Appleton home of George Harrison’s parents, Harry and Louise.

This week I can bring you a personal account that seems to confirm this. I also have some lovely readers’ memories of the Beatles’ two gigs in town.

And I’ve got something exciting lined up for next week’s column. So reading on...

First up is Florence Wilson, now in her 90s. She recalls going to a party at the Harrisons’ bungalow in the late 60s.

While she was at Sevenoaks, on Old Pewterspear Lane, Appleton, she was shown four sleeping bags in the attic.

She was told this was where John, Paul, George and Ringo slept on a visit to Appleton.

David Atherton, of Bingley, West Yorkshire, shed some light on the property itself, Sevenoaks, the Harrisons’ bungalow.

His parents, Percy and Elsie, built it in around 1960. Mr Atherton senior part owned J&P Atherton Contractors in Longford.

David has some wonderful memories of well known Warrington characters who worked on the construction. Sadly there isn’t the room here to share them all. But as a schoolboy, David and his mates helped with the labouring at Sevenoaks, which was so named because of that precise number of those trees in the field in which it was built.

Beatles history has long said the band played only once in Warrington, at the Bell Hall, Orford, on July 20, 1962.

As I revealed last week, many people recall them appearing at the Towers Labour Club on Lodge Lane, also in 1962.

My readers haven’t let me down and we can now start to fill in the blanks.

Reader David Higgins said he paid 3/9p to see the Beatles at the Bell Hall – more than the usual 2/6p. He said: “What a night.”

Some months later he was passing the Towers Labour Club and saw a banner advertising The Beatles, so he went in.

He said: “There were no tickets only two committee men on the door issuing cloakroom tickets and the money into the old pint pot on the table.

“Again another great show and I got a request via Paul McCartney for them to sing Money Money.

“I also remember the stick I got from workmates about bleating on about this supergroup The Beatles but the rest is history as they say.”

Alan Forster was a guitarist with Chris and the Diamonds the night they shared the bill with the Beatles at Towers Club.

He told me: “I distinctly remember that night because George Harrison borrowed my guitar lead (my claim to fame).”

John Rudd contacted me after his mum showed him my column from last week.

He said: “I was born in the parlour of our house on Lodge Lane in 1962, and we lived directly opposite the Towers Club, a venue that was frequented quite often by my parents.

“My late father Herbert told us on many occasions that the Beatles played there in 1963 and bragged that he played snooker and darts with George Harrison during his break.

“For the record, my dad thought they were rubbish and wouldn’t amount to much!”

Thanks for all your memories, readers.

I’ve got a real treat for you next week – an interview with Pete Rigby, the man who brought the Beatles to Warrington.

Now aged 76, he has some wonderful tales to tell. So don’t miss it.