FEW of the original venues played by the Beatles still remain – but a little piece of music history will be recreated at one next year.

Lydney Town Hall hosted the Fab Four for a gig on August 31, 1962.

And now one of the top John, Paul, George and Ringo tribute acts – the Mersey Beatles – will Get Back to create the Mop Tops’ magic there, playing exactly the same songs.

Fresh from sold out shows in the USA, Australia and Europe, the Liverpool-born tribute band are embarking on an historic Get Back UK tour that will include 12 of the old venues the Beatles once played.

Beatles musicologists believe the Fab Four actually signed to play another gig in Lydney and still owe the town a show, though this will be as close as it gets to hosting them again.

Just four days after the Beatles played in the Forest, they were recording with George Martin at Abbey Road for the first time, rocketing to fame within weeks and never returning.

Intriguingly, Ringo is recorded as playing the drums at the Lydney gig 56 years ago having just replaced Pete Best, despite the Review reporting five years ago that a Coleford fan who saw the show was adamant Ringo wasn’t in the band that night.

However, a jacket once belonging to him was auctioned by Bonhams in London in 1993 for £220, complete with a “receipt in pocket from Silver Fox Café, Newnham-on-Severn, for egg, chips, bread, butter and tea”.

Was that the day the band played in Lydney, or did they pop in to the Silver Fox, which still exists although it has ceased trading, on another occasion on their way to a pre-Severn Bridge gig in South Wales?

Presumably we’ll never know, but just as the music is timeless, fans will be able to Get Back and experience that heady night next November 21.

Fewer than 80 of the 200-plus British venues The Beatles played between 1957 and 1966 remain today, as most of the historic dance halls, theatres and cinemas that shook to the Merseybeat sound have been demolished.

The Mersey Beatles will be including the set list played in Lydney more than half a century ago, as part of a two-hour show encompassing the Fab Four’s whole career.

Julia Baird, John Lennon’s sister and director of Liverpool’s world famous Cavern Club, said: “The Mersey Beatles are the most authentic I’ve heard... and I’ve heard them all.”

Tickets are on sale via www.ticketmaster.co.uk