Bob threw away a Fab Four fortune

8:00am Saturday 13th October 2012 in Hampshire Sport

shirley conservative club a: From left: Bob Lofthouse, Dave Parkes (capt), Dave Rowbotham, Richard Clarke, Tony Hannam, Dave Bundy. shirley conservative club a: From left: Bob Lofthouse, Dave Parkes (capt), Dave Rowbotham, Richard Clarke, Tony Hannam, Dave Bundy.

BEATLES memorabilia now worth thousands of pounds was given away in the early 1960s by a member of the Shirley Conservative Club A snooker team.

Bob Lofthouse, then a junior waiter at the Polygon Hotel in Southampton, twice served the Fab Four with tea, toast and orange juice for breakfast.

One morning, following a concert by The Beatles the previous evening at the Gaumont (now The Mayflower), Lofthouse persuaded Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr to sign some restaurant menus.

“There was a big crowd outside the hotel,” recalled Lofthouse. “Hundreds of kids.

“I went outside and threw the menus about like confetti. “When I think of all those signatures I gave away…”

Shirley Conservative Club is the featured club in the Social Clubs' Spotlight in today's Daily Echo

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jonnyx says...
9:23pm Sat 13 Oct 12

topical, cutting edge story - well done the echo.

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likewatchingbrazil says...
5:33pm Sun 14 Oct 12

jonnyx wrote:
topical, cutting edge story - well done the echo.
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