A RARE Beatles' record is set to fetch more than £10,000 when it goes up for sale at Omega Auctions Ltd in Great Sankey next month.

After more than 50 years, a Surrey woman has decided to part with the collector's item she has treasured since first getting her hands on it in 1963 as a 16-year-old school girl.

Pamela Buckley and her three friends saw the Beatles play in early 1963, having first heard them on a portable radio sneaked into their London convent school. 

As they were awaiting their pre-ordered copies of the band's first album Please Please Me they discovered that the band were going to be staying at the London hotel where the father of one of the girls, Ann Turner, was manager. 

On March 22, 1963, they rushed out to collect their records and gave them to the Ann’s father to get signed on their behalf.  

Later that day, the four friends were at the station, about to leave for a school trip to Oban, Scotland, when Mr Turner turned up to show them the records, each duly signed by the band, together with a post card addressed to them all, Pam, Ann, Norma and Theresa. 

Pam said: "The record was taken many times to local parties, youth clubs and events, as were all records at that time. 

"There were no discos or organised music, it was either bands playing or your own records.

"I’ve kept it so long mainly for sentimental reasons as it is such a huge reminder of my teenage years."

The record is one of the star lots in Beatles collection auction set to go under the hammer on September 14 at the house on Liverpool Road.

Also up for sale is a fridge which stood pride of place in the kitchen of John Lennon’s Kenwood home and a rare reel-to-reel tape of an interview of the Beatles for the British Forces Radio, believed to be the only copy in existence.

Both are valued at £5,000.