an old friend dropped this the same day via Facebook thanks Jack (McNaney)!
Note the price predecimal 12 old pence or 36p in todays money!
On 16 February 1963, the Beatles played at the Carfax Assembly Rooms, to the right of the present HSBC bank. The assembly rooms were reached via a side passage. The downstairs premises were small and used for meetings, while the upstairs room where dances were held was larger, presumably spreading over part of Bank House above the bank.
Afterwards Jeffrey Archer, future novelist, Conservative Party politician, and disgraced peer, but never a matriculated member of Oxford University, (behind Paul and George in the photo) invited the boys to the principal’s lodging at Brasenose. Also present was future theatre critic Sheridan Morley, then a student at Merton, who recalls: ‘I went to the toilet, and there beside me was Ringo Starr.
He asked if I knew this Jeffrey Archer bloke. I said everyone in Oxford was trying to work out who he was. Ringo said: “He strikes me as a nice enough fella, but he’s the kind of bloke who would bottle your p*ss and sell it.”’
A true story like this for every day of the year in "On this Day in Oxfordshire: vol 1", available at Abebooks
From a brilliant local historian and picture archive researcher I follow and have bought books by Julie Ann Godson
Not least because Julie Ann’s reference here is to the only time the Beatles ever played Oxford City I once worked with someone who claimed he had seen them play at the Carfax Assembly rooms. Now, then (and still!) a bit younger than me I would have been ten when they first played there! He would have been 9!!
Ahem!?
My old pal Phil might have some amusement at this one . . . . .you KNOW why Phil, eh?
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