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- Lovebirds
- 'The Morning of St Valentine', by John C Horsley
- Valentine display in Woolworth's, 1937
- Sweetheart brooch
- Seizure of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
- Shrimp pot
- Ladies night dance programme
- 'Kissing bug'
- Pair of Valentine cards, 1850-1900
- French rose
- Sailor's farewell
- Joseph Denham letter
- 'Love tormenting the soul', by John Gibson
- Locarno handbill, 1963
- Inuit boots
- Rialto Ballroom handbill, 1937
- Sailor's valentine
- 'An Idyll', by Maurice W Greiffenhagen
- Cupid cup and saucer
- Romantic moths
- Baltic Valentine menu, 1913
- 'Our first tiff', by Robert W Macbeth
- Heart shaped silver plate

Locarno handbill, 1963

Accession number MLL.2005.41.6

Handbill with outline of a beetle around the text

Some very lucky people who attended this event at the Locarno in 1963 can now claim that The Beatles were their Valentines! They had to share them with at least 500 ladies, but most fans of the band probably wouldn't have minded that at all.

The text on the handbill reads:

'Locarno Liverpool
THURSDAY FEB. 14TH 63

We present your Valentines
THE BEATLES

FREE GIFTS
TO THE FIRST 500 LADIES

7.30 - 11.30
ALL PAY 3'6 AT DOOR'

This handbill, which is not currently on display, was originally shown in the exhibition Collecting The Beatles. at the former Museum of Liverpool Life in 2005-2006.

Other romantic objects in the collection relating to The Beatles include the 'All You Need Is Love' bedspread, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Montreal 'Bed-In For Peace' in room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal in 1969.