Penny Lane
Former tram and bus terminus street whose barber, bank and roundabout shelter inspired a Beatles song.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Penny Lane in Liverpool starts at a bus terminus where a teenage Paul McCartney changed buses on his way to John Lennon's house. It looks at the shelter, the barber and the bank that found their way into a nineteen sixty-seven Beatles single, and at which of its characters were real. Best heard from the roundabout at Smithdown Place, looking along the row of shops.
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