By Mike Pryce The divine Sarah Siddons. Worcester educated, she died in 1831 in London and more than 5,000 attended her funeral HAD the Beatles pitched up in Worcester in 1763 – unlikely I know – they still wouldn’t have found a decent auditorium. The city has long lacked one. As it was, when they came twice in 1963, they had to make do with the stage of the Gaumont cinema, which was a bit better than the wooden shed they’d have been offered 200 years before. In the 18th century few places had a theatre that wasn’t a barn or some other impoverished property. At Worcester, the performing arts were staged in a wooden building in the yard of the King’s Head Inn, opposite the Guildhall in High Street.