TIMEWATCH still hasn’t heard how the words ‘Aber Rag’ appeared on the side of the Cavern Club in the 1960s, but the appearance of this picture sparked a few memories for some of our readers.

The picture appeared in the paper on 7 January when Karen and Geoffrey Jones appealed for more information about it.

The pair had recently visited the world-famous venue just before Christmas and were amazed to see this photograph hanging on the wall of the Beatles Museum.

“We went shopping in Liverpool and decided to go round the Beatles Museum,” Karen said.

“They’ve got the history of everything that was going on there in the ’60s including this photograph which my husband spotted.

“He said, ‘Look, it’s got ‘Aber Rag’ on it’.

“We couldn’t believe it. It’s amazing to see that, somehow, in the 1960s probably, the words ‘Aber Rag’ appeared on the side of the original Cavern Club. We’d love to know who put them there, when, and why?”

David Subacchi said students might be to blame.

Commenting on the photograph, he said: “Before my time, but if this is genuine it is almost certainly the work of UCW Aberystwyth Students who used to travel far and wide each year to sell copies of the Aberystwyth Rag Magazine for charity.

“In this period it was customary to impose a penalty on those individuals, cars and businesses that refused to contribute.

“This might include plastering windscreen or business frontage with Rag stickers or painted slogans.”

John Wooding said: “I have no specific information about this, but I was a student at Aber between ‘73 and ‘78 (and a schoolboy there before that).

“In those days coaches would take students on donation-seeking trips to some of the nearer English cities and towns. Liverpool might well have been one of those cities.”

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