▲Liverpool mum Mary Brocks, aged 25 in 1963, with her nine children, including triplets and twins.

▲Pop singer Cilla Black talks to a friend at the Cavern Club in 1963.

▲Sammy Davis Junior skips to his Rolls Royce in 1963. He is in England for a week of variety performances at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

▲Mid-century Liverpool was a city of contrast. The decline of industry meant that poverty was rife, but the explosion of Merseybeat made the city synonymous with youth culture. Take a look at these fascinating photos of Liverpool in the 1960s.

▲A crowd watches The Merseybeats at the legendary Cavern Club.

▲The Cavern Club was a centre of the youth scene in Liverpool in the 1960s and is known worldwide for hosting The Beatles in their early years.

▲Bessie Braddock, Labour MP for Liverpool, reads an article in the Barbados Advocate newspaper in 1962.

▲Young women dance at the Cavern Club in 1963.

▲Beatles fans sit in an alley waiting for their heroes in 1963.

▲A member of The Undertakers on stage at the Iron Door Club.

▲Visitors to the Cavern Club file down steep stairs and are required to sign in, in 1963.

▲The Grade II* listed building today houses part of the World Museum Liverpool and Liverpool Central Library.

▲Peggy Robertshaw stops to talk to children as she walks her daily 12 miles around Liverpool, testing shoes for Dunlop in 1965.

▲The Chants performing at the Cavern Club in 1964.

▲Teenagers watch from the side of the stage at the Cavern Club in 1964.

▲Local comedian Jimmy Tarbuck with his family at their home in Liverpool, November 1963.

▲Everton's home grounds in 1965.

▲The city's double-decker buses provided transportation for the working class population.

▲Newly elected Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson toasts his victory with a glass of beer in Liverpool in 1964.

▲A woman poses with two mannequins in front of a poster for the Cavern Club.

▲A car park full of Ford Anglias at the Ford Motor Company's factory at Halewood, near Liverpool. Production stopped in 1965 after a strike by delivery drivers left parking spaces full.

▲The Liverpool-born DJ and pioneering champion of alternative music in 1968.

▲Footballer Pele arrives at the Lymm Hotel, near Liverpool, where the Brazilian team will stay during the 1966 World Cup.

▲Residents of Claudia Street decorate their houses in preparation for the match between Bulgaria and Brazil at nearby Goodison Park during the 1966 World Cup.

▲Pop singer Cilla Black with her husband at their second marriage ceremony at the Catholic church of St Mary's in 1969.

▲John Rossiter, the acting director of the Liverpool Observatory, and an unnamed staff member at the observatory in 1961.

▲A young Paul McCartney at the Cavern Club in 1960.

▲Actress Rita Tushingham is pushed around on a cart by a group of children while filming 'A Taste of Honey' in 1960.

▲Striking delivery drivers queue up to sign for their pay. Three hundred drivers striked because a shop steward was dismissed after being convicted of dangerous driving.

▲The town hall, with the Liver Building in the background, in 1963.

▲Roger Hunt of Liverpool scores his team's first goal during the European Cup semi-final, first leg against Inter-Milan at Anfield, May 5, 1965. Liverpool won the match 3-1.

▲Bells are created for Liverpool Cathedral in 1965.

▲The Cavern Club was closed in March 1973 and was filled in during construction work on the Merseyrail underground rail loop. The legendary venue was re-opened in 1984 using many of the original bricks to the original plans.

▲Jockey Pat Buckley bends over his horse after falling at the Grand National fence at Aintree Racecourse in 1967.

Fascinating photos of 1960s Liverpool

Take a look at the city in the Merseybeat years

02/06/20 por StarsInsider

LIFESTYLE Liverpool

The 1960s was a period of flux for northern England. Liverpool was in industrial decline but high on youth culture. Merseybeat exploded and the British Invasion made the northern city synonymous with The Beatles around the world. Take a look through the gallery to see fascinating photos of Liverpool in the 1960s.