The Aintree Institute was a live music venue in
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. From the late 1950s, the venue was associated with Liverpool's growing
Merseybeat
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scene.
History
The institute was founded in the 1890s by
Sir William Pickles Hartley
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. In an initial meeting in 1892, Hartley offered £1,000 (approximately £60,000 in 2005
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') towards a project that would see "all the Churches, from the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England down to the very smallest mission room ... enter into a Christlike compact to fight against evil in every form."
After the institute's establishment, the hall was used by the Aintree Photographic Society as a club house and exhibition venue.
During the Second World War,
black people were prohibited from entering the hall. This was the result of a shooting and stabbing incident involving drunken black
GIs.
In the early 1960s, promoter Bill Kelly (also of
Lathom Hall
Lathom Hall is a former cinema and music venue in Seaforth, England. Built in 1884, the venue became synonymous with Merseybeat in the 1960s.
Music venue
On 14 May 1960, the Silver Beatles auditioned at the hall during the interval of a per ...
) hosted concerts at the Institute billed as "sensational jive dances".
The Beatles
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headlined a number of these evenings, billed as "The Dynamic Beatles"
or the "Great Boppin' Beatles".
The Beatles performed a total of 31 shows at the venue
between 7 January 1961
and 27 January 1962.
While at the club, it was common for some concertgoers to throw chairs at each other and at the band. The Beatles' final concert at the venue paid £15 (approximately £230 in 2005
), but
Brian Epstein
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was furious when Kelly paid the group in loose change. Epstein felt this was an insult to the band, and never booked the band with Kelly again.
The Aintree was demolished in 2007.
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