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Mendips Virtual Tour |
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at 251 Menlove Avenue |
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Lennon
lived at Mendips, in Menlove Avenue, Woolton, with his Aunt Mimi from
the age of five to 23. |
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The semi-detached
house was donated to the National Trust by his widow, Yoko Ono, and
opened to the public this week.
Click
here to take a virtual tour of the house
The small bedroom where Lennon spent hours playing his guitar has
been recreated, with 45rpm singles by Elvis Presley and a poster of
The King on the wall. Lennon and McCartney composed The Beatles' first
UK number one, Please Please Me in his Aunt Mimi's bedroom.
The house is close to his childhood haunt Strawberry Field - a Salvation
Army children's home that he later immortalised in a song. Lennon
often practised his guitar in the front porch while his early band,
The Quarrymen, and later The Beatles, also rehearsed there.
The house
has been restored to the way it looked when Lennon lived there in
the 1950s and early 1960s.
Visitors
will be able to enjoy a joint tour of Mendips and the former home
of Sir Paul at 20, Forthlin Road.
Tours run from 29 March to 26 October from Wednesday to Sunday.
Access to the houses is by minibus tour only which leave from the
Albert Dock and Speke Hall.
Tickets:
Adults 拢10
National Trust members 拢5
children are free when accompanied by an adult.
For more information and pre-bookings call
0151 708 8574.
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