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TThe Day Trippers series of photographs takes into account the enormous attraction that the Beatles still have for fans around the world and the phenomenal importance of their legacy for the Liverpool economy, which in 2016 was estimated to generate £ 82 million a year in tourism and more than 2,300 jobs in the city.
Visitor numbers continued to grow, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, as Beatles’ music became increasingly popular in countries like Brazil and China, along with established fan bases in the United States and Europe.
While people travel the world to visit great cathedrals, natural wonders and historical sites, in this case their mission is to see what are essentially a few streets of municipal housing in the southern suburb of Liverpool to pay tribute to their heroes. .
It may be an incongruous sight when hordes of tourists pass children playing on the street where George Harrison once did it, or a group of Germans have an impromptu dance outside Ringo Starr’s childhood home to the sound of the band. at full volume from a taxi.
The street, one of the “Welsh streets” in Dingle, had been boarded up for years awaiting demolition, but was saved by a renovation project. German tourists were traveling as part of a Fab Four taxi tour and had asked the driver to play the Beatles’ songs at full volume from the cabin.
Strawberry Field reopened in 2019 as an interactive visitor exhibition, cafeteria, and store, as well as offering quiet garden spaces for spiritual reflection and a “steps to work” program for young adults with learning disabilities and other barriers to employment. .
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Spanish tourists take a selfie at Mendips, Menlove Avenue, John Lennon’s childhood home; Tourists pose in front of the Beatles sculpture on Liverpool’s waterfront
Day trippers on the Magical Mystery Tour bus
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Tourists pose for photos in front of Penny Lane barber Tony Slavin, while three schoolchildren watch amused and the Magical Mystery Tour bus heads to George Harrison’s home.
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The Magical Mystery Tour bus passes at the end of Madryn Street, where Ringo Starr lived as a child; Graffiti tributes at the bricked up house at 9 Madryn Street, Starr’s childhood home
One of the original “Welsh streets”, houses built by Welsh workers for Welsh immigrants looking for work in Liverpool in the mid-1800s, for many years in recent times Madryn Street had been abandoned before it became part of a major renovation program .
“Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout … “ The Magical Mystery Tour bus passes the “barber” and the “bench” at the top of Penny Lane.
