The Beatles wrap up filming for BBC documentary ‘The Mersey Sound’ in Liverpool 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 30 1963)


Video: 'The Beatles Mersey Sound 1963' (Aug. 30, 1963, at 22:03-22:29/28:12-28:30)

(Friday, August 30, 1963) — On the fourth and final day in which The Beatles were filmed by BBC producer Don Haworth for the documentary The Mersey Sound, Ringo Starr was captured today leaving his family home outside 10 Admiral Grove, Liverpool 8, through the front door, being crowded by a horde of local children, and escaping in George Harrison’s open-top sports car.

Also present were John Lennon and Paul McCartney, although footage of them from this day wasn’t used in the final edit.

Afterwards, Haworth filmed a scene in which Starr walked alongside a row of women sitting underneath hairdryers in the salon at the Horne Bros clothes store in Lord Street, Liverpool.

The Mersey Beat was first broadcast on Lennon’s 23rd birthday, October 9, 1963, at 10:10 p.m. British Summer Time, in the London and northern England regions. Its first nationwide broadcast took place on Nov. 13 from 7:10 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time.