In 2020, the ECHO reported that the ship mast had been taken down and removed<\/a> from its popular waterfront spot on the Strand, near the junction with Chapel Street, during highway improvements.<\/p>\nAt the time, a council spokesperson said it had been taken down and placed in a \u201csafe space\u201d, and a new location for the mast had \u201cnot yet been decided\u201d.<\/p>\n
Launched in 1947, The Salvor was a salvage ship that operated on the Mersey until 1978, and its mast was subsequently installed on the roundabout near the Liver Building.<\/p>\n
However, Peter said the mast currently \u201clies in pieces rotting\u201d in a council yard, and that the council now claims it has no cash for restoration and relocation.<\/p>\n
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The mast is dismantled in Newton Road council yard(Image: Jonathan Brown)<\/p>\n
He now wants to save the piece of Beatles memorabilia in time for the visit of Cunard Line\u2019s four Queen cruise liners in Liverpool in 2028, creating a \u2018Four by Four\u2019 spectacle for the city.<\/p>\n
He told the ECHO: \u201cMy ambition is to bring together two sets of four iconic world-famous Liverpool names for the first time, when the Salvor mast, officially marking Ringo\u2019s arrival in the Beatles, is unveiled to coincide with Cunard\u2019s four Queen liners\u2019 visit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis would create an international sensation and world news coverage for Liverpool if we could get Ringo Starr or Paul McCartney, or indeed both, to unveil the newly restored and relocated mast.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a perfect match as John Lennon\u2019s father was a Cunard steward and his grandfather crewed the previous Salvor. George Harrison\u2019s father was a steward for White Star Line, later merged with Cunard. Ringo Starr worked on North Wales excursion steamers, and Paul McCartney\u2019s father worked at the Cotton Exchange, which was maritime-based.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want the mast to be in a high-profile public place, with photos and information boards, so visitors can have their selfies taken where the Beatles once stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe incredible popularity of the Pier Head Beatles sculptures with queues practically round the clock shows the public\u2019s appetite for these very simple but hugely emotive attractions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peter added that while the hurdles facing the mast’s restoration and the search for a new home are significant, its status as an irreplaceable piece of Liverpool’s history means its survival should be guaranteed.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt\u2019s a big object, designed for heavy-duty work lifting navigation buoys in and out of the Mersey. With no maintenance for five years, the mast is in poor shape and rusting badly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be a civic crime to let it get beyond repair and end up being scrapped.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes Liverpool seriously want to be left behind when its world-famous group, the Beatles, are bigger than ever, through sheer ignorance and inertia, destroying this irreplaceable and biggest piece of Beatles memorabilia?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe eyes of the world will be on Liverpool in 2028 as the gathering of all four Cunard Queen liners will be an incredible spectacle, and the Beatles Salvor mast on the waterfront will be extra big icing on the cake.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we don\u2019t grab this opportunity, one unwelcome aspect of my campaign\u2019s publicity is that someone else will swoop in, make an offer the council can\u2019t refuse, and take it off to the US or Far East. Apparently, there\u2019s already been one offer, which luckily didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cSadly, Liverpool has a history of squandering its unparalleled historic assets, but I\u2019m absolutely determined this is not going to be the case with the Beatles Salvor mast.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Liverpool City Council spokesperson said: \u201cWe have previously reached out to our maritime network but unfortunately there has been no interest in taking it. It needs someone who has the means to rehome, recommission and maintain it for years to come. If anyone does come forward as a result of the campaign we are happy to hold discussions with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A piece of Liverpool’s Beatles history has been “left to rot” The Salvor mast was located on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,2347,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-616659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-liverpool-city-centre","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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