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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1853 | The Dreadnought sailing ship, on which the shanty of that title is based, makes her first crossings from New York to Liverpool |
| 1919 | Jim McCartney, father of Paul McCartney began a ragtime band to play at works dances |
| 1921 | Jack Lennon, grandfather of John Lennon, who had spent most of his professional life as a singer in America dies |
| 9-Oct-1940 | John Winston Lennon is born at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital |
| 18-Jun-1942 | James Paul McCartney is born at Walton Hospital |
| 1945 | John Lennon goes to live with his Aunt Mimi at 251 Menlove Avenue |
| 1951 | Lita Roza records "Allentown Jail" with the Heath Band |
| 1953 | Lita Roza becomes the first female and frst Liverpool artist to reach No 1 in the recently started "UK hit parade" |
| 16-Jan-1957 | Alan Sytner opens The Cavern in Matthew Street |
| 7-Aug-1957 | John Lennon makes his first apparance at The Cavern with The Quarrymen |
| 1957 | John Lennon who had previously started a beat group is introduced to Paul McCartney at Woolton |
| 1957 | "Dangerous Youth", a movie set in Liverpool with Frankie Vaughan singing "These Dangerous Years" is released |
| 1959 | Alan Sytner sells The Cavern |
| 6-Jul-1961 | The first edition of Mersey sound newspaper 'Mersy Beat' comes out |
| 28-Oct-1961 | "Raymond Jones" asks Brian Epstein at NEMS for a copy a new record by The Beatles but he has never heard of them |
| 1961 | Brian Epstein of NEMS Record Store becomes the new manager of The Beatles |
| 1966 | The Cavern Club goes bankrupt |