3 Gambier Terrace

Artist and early Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe lived on the first floor of 3 Gambier Terrace with a fellow painter in the early sixties. A gorgeous Georgian terrace overlooking Liverpool Cathedral, the flat looked like a student dive inside with badly painted walls and sparse furniture. Regardless of this, it became a hang-​out for local artists and musicians with John Lennon moving in for a short period in 1960. Paul McCartney and George Harrison were regular visitors and would often jam and rehearse live sets with Lennon and Stucliffe.
There’s no official tours of Gambier Terrace — yet — but hardcore Beatles and Merseybeat fanatics can wander down the street and imagine the mischief that must have unravelled in the flat! For those that aren’t aware of Sutcliffe’s role in The Beatles, he spent the first 15 months as the band’s electric bassist and toured Hamburg with them. He left the band to focus on painting and his love affair with photographer Astrid Kirchher but died tragically in April 1962. His work has been exhibited in Germany and the UK and his story is dramatised in the film Backbeat.