Liverpool's Beatles Story sits inside the Albert Dock, a set of Victorian warehouses so handsome it seems almost wasteful that they were built for brandy and cotton rather than admiration.

The museum moved in during the 1980s renovation, among the dock's first new tenants, and set about recreating the band's actual haunts: a mock-up Abbey Road Studios and a version of the Cavern Club, the cellar bar where the Beatles served their apprenticeship as house band. Genuine artefacts fill the gaps between reconstruction, including George Harrison's first guitar and John Lennon's white piano, objects that make four Liverpudlian lads' extraordinary trajectory feel suddenly touchable.

VoiceMap's Liverpool tours weave the Beatles Story into a longer thread tracing the city's reinvention through music and docks, following Mathew Street's Cavern Club and Wall of Fame to the waterfront where the band once returned to 30,000 adoring fans.