JOHN Lennon’s name is back up in lights at The Lathom in Seaforth.

Regulars at the club will be greeted by the sight of two 10ft figures of the Beatles legend.

The Fab Four played at the Lathom Avenue club 10 times between 1960 and 1961.

Owner Brian Corrigan snapped up the lamp-post figures after spotting them in a sale of unwanted Blackpool illuminations.

The figures were commissioned by pie company Holland’s in 2001. Lennon – whose face is a giant pie – was featured in full hippy garb under the banner Hi-Pie.

Mr Corrigan said: “I saw there was a one-off sale of Blackpool illuminations and I had pre-bought a couple of things, illuminated Love and Fab signs.

“But these John Lennon figures were not in the catalogue or on the Internet. I spotted them at the back of a yard and was told they were available to buy.

“They would have been snapped up, but I went to Blackpool the day before the sale, so I was first in the queue when it opened and I got them.

“They are absolutely enormous and I was gob-smacked when I saw them.”

One of the figures has already been installed outside the club. The other will go inside the building with other Beatles and Sixties memorabilia.

In May last year Mr Corrigan recreated the cover of the iconic Sgt Pepper album on the stage at The Lathom.

The last of the group’s gigs at the Lathom Avenue venue came on George Harrison’s 18th birthday, February 25, 1961, just before the height of Beatlemania.

Mr Corrigan added: “This is the only original stage left that The Beatles played on, all the others have been redeveloped or changed.”

The club owner also has genuine autographs of The Beatles, diaries of when Brian Kelly booked the band and photographs of the group.

Most of the band’s appearances were at the beginning of 1961, when Mr Kelly was paying them an average of eight pounds and ten pence a performance.