251 Menlove Avenue - John Lennon home
Roughcast nineteen-thirties semi where a Beatle grew up, restored to its fifties look.
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This guide to Mendips, the house at 251 Menlove Avenue in Liverpool where John Lennon grew up, centres on a summer evening in nineteen fifty-eight, when his friend Nigel Walley called round and found two sisters talking at the front gate. It follows Aunt Mimi, who raised John here, and Julia, the mother who visited almost daily and shared his love of rock and roll. You'll also hear about the porch where the Quarrymen took shape. Best heard from the pavement facing the front of the house.
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