National Trust - Paul McCartney's Childhood House
Modest postwar terrace where a teenage Lennon and McCartney wrote and rehearsed early Beatles songs.
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This guide to Paul McCartney's childhood home at 20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool begins in nineteen fifty-five, when Jim and Mary McCartney moved their two sons into a modest new terrace in Allerton. It follows a family through grief, a father who answered it with instruments, and the teenage friendship with John Lennon that grew on the front-room floor. Younger brother Mike and his camera turn up along the way. Best heard from the pavement outside the front gate.
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