A MAN used his hobby to redesign a poster from The Beatles gig at Earlestown Town Hall.
Nick Morley, from Newton-le-Willows, redesigned the retro poster advertising the FabFour’s only visit to the town.
The delivery driver used to DJ as a hobby and later developed an interest in redesigning posters for old nightclubs of the area.
Nick said: “We designed the old nightclub signs and sold them during lockdown. There was a poster for The Beatles at the town hall, but it wasn’t very good, so I thought, if I could design another one, an old retro, rustic type with all the information on, I could sell a few.
"I managed to sell about 30 or 40 of them, so that’s what led me to do the poster and it went down quite well.”
Attention to detail was needed to achieve an authentic look to the posters, with Nick explaining how further research was needed to complete the design.
He added: “I got in touch with a few people, mainly through my friends and my dad or people who I knew had been there and got all of it researched to find out who was on and who was there- it was quite interesting really.”
The 48-year-old collaborated with one of his friends on the hobby, as both worked together to resurrect the outdated flyers.
As well as The Beatles poster, Nick has also designed other past nightclub signs, including rustic street signs of Warrington classics Mr Smiths and Carlton Club. 
Nick added: “I had lots of old flyers from the nightclubs in the 90s, and my friend was doing bar signs, so I thought I’d design a couple nightclub signs in the area. It was quite popular in lockdown when people were building their own bars."
The sign designer also did a poster for when The Beatles played at the Plaza in St Helens.
His Facebook page Retro Nightclub & Music Merch promoting their signs received nearly 600 likes.
He also did signs of notable places around the region, including locations in Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester, and Liverpool.
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