Liverpool - Homes of the Beatles - multiview Salmon postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Liverpool: Home of the Beatles: George Harrison, 12 Arnold Grove / John Lennon, 251 Menlove Avenue / Paul McCartney, 20 Forthlin Road - slighthly larger card
• Publisher:  J Salmon (10-06-02-31)
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251 Menlove Avenue, named Mendips, was the childhood home of John Lennon, singer and songwriter with the Beatles, and is now preserved by the National Trust.

Mendips is a 1930s semi-detached property in Woolton, South Liverpool, England. The house belonged to Lennon's Aunt Mimi and her husband George Smith. The couple took John in at the age of five, after his mother, who was living with her boyfriend, was persuaded that it would be better for Mimi and George to take care of him. He remained at Mendips until mid-1963, when he was 22 years old.

Despite having purchased the childhood residence of Paul McCartney, the National Trust showed no interest in acquiring the Menlove Avenue property, claiming that, unlike McCartney's home, no Beatles' songs had been composed at Mendips. However McCartney recalls at least one song, I'll Get You, being written there.^[1]

The property was eventually bought by Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, who then donated it to the National Trust. After much restoration work to return it to a 1950s style, it was opened to the public on 27 March 2003.

Said Ono, ""When John's house came up for sale I wanted to preserve it for the people of Liverpool and John Lennon and Beatles' fans all over the world."" (Associated Press, 14 February 2003).

It is a Grade II listed building.^[2]

20 Forthlin Road is a National Trust property in south Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is the house in which Paul McCartney lived for several years before he rose to fame with The Beatles. It was also the home of his brother Mike.

The house was built by the local authority and the McCartney family moved into the house in 1955. In 1965, Paul bought his father, James, a house on The Wirral.^[1][2] The house has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1995.^[3] The Trust markets the house as ""the birthplace of the Beatles"", since this is the place where The Beatles composed and rehearsed their earliest songs. Unlike Lennon's house, Mendips, 20 Forthlin Road does not have a blue plaque – and is currently ineligible to receive one – English Heritage issue a plaque once the figure has ""been dead for 20 years, or [has] passed the centenary of their birth"".^[4]

The house was the birthplace of the group The Scaffold, of which Mike was a member.

It is a Grade II listed building.^[5]

12 Arnold Grove, the birthplace of former Beatle George Harrison, is a house in Liverpool, England, situated in the Wavertree area. It is a small terraced house in a cul-de-sac, with a small alley to the rear.^[1] Harrison's parents, Harold and Louise, moved to the house in 1930 following their marriage.^[2] The rent was ten shillings a week.^[3] Here their four children were born—Louise (16 August 1931), Harry (1934), Peter (20 July 1940) and George (25 February 1943).

Harrison recalled the only heating was a single coal fire, and the house was so cold in winter that he and his brothers dreaded getting up in the morning because it was literally freezing cold and they had to use the outside toilet.^[1] The house had tiny rooms —only ten feet squared (about 100 square feet, about 9 m²) — and a small iron cooking stove in the back room, which was used as a kitchen.^[1] Describing the back garden, Harrison wrote it had ""a one-foot wide flower bed, a toilet, a dustbin fitted to the back wall (and) a little hen house where we kept cockerels.""^[1]

During the six years Harrison lived in the property, the rent rose. The family had, by this point, been living there for nearly 20 years and finally moved out to a new council estate in Speke on 2 January 1950.^[4] Harry recalled: ""Our little house was just two rooms up and two rooms down, but, except for a short period when our father was away at sea, we always knew the comfort and security of a very close-knit home life.""^[5]

Harrison once said of the house, ""Try and imagine the soul entering the womb of a woman living at 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool 15. There were all the barrage balloons, and the Germans bombing Liverpool. All that was going on. I sat outside the house a couple of years ago, imagining 1943, nipping through the spiritual world, the astral level, getting back into a body in that house. That really is strange when you consider the whole planet, all the planets there may be on a spiritual level. How do I come into that family, in that house at that time, and who am I anyway?""^[5]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

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period=1945 - present

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