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'Rare' Beatles' memorabilia sells for £11k at auction

May 27,2022 7:00 pm

A Collection of previously unseen memorabilia of The Beatles before they became famous has been sold at auction.

It includes photographs taken when The Band played in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, in 1963.

A huge fan of the Fab Four, 16-year-old Sandra Woodruff (nee Blaken) tracked The Group down, after a tipoff, to room number 49 at the Royal Pier Hotel.

" It's so rare to find things signed by all four of them, " said Andrew Stowe from East Bristol Auctions.

" There is No Other collection on The Planet as unique or as important, " he added.

John, Paul, Ringo and George were about to take the International Music scene by storm in 1963.

" I guess they were enjoying the attention because it was the early days for them.

" A couple of months later and we would never have got near them, " said Mrs Woodruff.

" When they came on the radio we used to scream and my Dad would say, 'Oh, good Lord, it's The Beatles again, " she added.

The Group performed two gigs a night at The Town 's Odeon Cinema.

Mrs Woodruff had a ticket to one of the shows and said: " We asked The Lads running the Ghost Train 'Do you know where The Beatles are staying?'

" They said 'If you buy us some fags, we'll tell you. '

" So we bought them 10 Woodbine each and they said the 'Royal Pier Hotel, " she added.

Mrs Woodruff and a friend managed to sneak into room number 49.

" No doors were locked. So we went in and I thought, I've got to take something that they won't be cross about.

" In The Wardrobe there was a big pile of white pants, new ones, a big pile and In Between was a card, so I pinched that and got it signed, " she added.

The Collection attracted £11,360 at auction.



Source of news: bbc.com

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