Every time i drive past John's old house, i look up at the bedroom window & say " alright John lad", even though i only live 10 minute's away from these 2 places, its still a thrill to see them, at 68 i just missed out on the lads, but my sister used to go & watch them in the Cavern in the early 60s. They did us proud they did.
I can’t even for a second comprehend in my mind that those geniuses used to walk these very same footsteps. They achieved and attained such a massive status that you almost forget they were real people who like eveyone else who struggled and had emotions and dreams and hopes.
Geniuses? Seriously? I am one of the Beatles biggest admirers and can sing and play every one of their songs but please don't fawn all over them and call them geniuses It makes you look stupid...
They didn't. They went over the fence in John's backyard through the tree that is now gone. The tree is in the song. Going that way was nothing to get hung about.
John used to enter Strawberry Field from Vale Road, which runs from the corner and around back of his house. He used to jump the wall there and enter the thick trees and woods, which now is a housing estate so it looks much different now.
I lived just along Menlove ave at the same time and age as JL. I also used to walk along to Strawberry Field to play. Funny to think that I might have played with him aged 6 or 7. My sister and I hung around in Penny Lane roundabout as well. My gran knew Paul.
Just one more comment. I am probably one of only two people still alive that know how Forthlin Road got it's name! My granddad was the building quality inspector who also had to name all the roads in the region!
@@michaelorenstein9165 Granddad was the Clerk of Works for that region of Liverpool (Allerton) and he had to not only monitor building quality of all the houses but to name the roads as well. The roads are there for named after all the local councillors. No problem - except the councillor Linforth did not want his name included! So granddad simply reversed the two sections of his name! Councillor Linforth was apparently impressed and agreed with the idea. Hence.
@@lharris828 Very interesting!! Thanks. A now-deceased friend was a cousin of Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. Wish I had a way to contact Mark. I bet he'd be interested in that type of small detail.
Thanks for the video! Hard to believe I took that same walk 42 years ago. After knocking on "Aunt Mimi's door" in December '81, a woman answered but denied my request to take a quick look-see. I then took your route to Strawberry Fields. The gates were wide open, so I walked right in. Earlier that day, the owner (Mr. Jones) of McCartney's former home on Forthlin Rd opened his door and was very hospitable, allowing me in. I really can't blame the woman in the Menlove home.....I'm sure she had grown tired of all the requests. Still, two wonderful memories!
@@michaelorenstein9165 the house and the fields dont mean anything. The places dont right songs. You can visit them, but they have nothing to do with music.
Thank you so much for this video! Wonderful for fans like me who will never be able to travel there to see it in person! Thanks again from the bottom of my heart!!
It was a very long time ago but I was blessed enough to go and had my pic taken outside of Strawberry Fields just like those tourists did-by the cab driver as well. It was a great day.
Good on Mimi? She was a control freak. Took him from his mother and forbid him to see his half sisters. He may have had a good upbringing but it was his secret visits to his mothers that got him into music when she taught him the banjo
Thank you very much for uploading the precious video. I visited John's house and Strawberry F. almost 30 years ago. It's a great memory, but I didn't walk like this way from John's house. It brings my memory back in my mind and now I can draw a new image of how John used to play in his childhood.
Read Julia Baird's (John's 1/2 sister) book Imagine That, you'll learn a lot more about John and his family. There's stuff that Julia only learnt later in life.
Zumindest hat John diesen schönen letzten Song hinterlassen und George hat ja auch seinen Anteil daran gehabt. Danke Paul und Ringo und alle Helfer für die wundervolle Aufnahme von "Now and Than !" ❤
Thank you. how beautiful. I have never had a real idea visually of how the great man would’ve made that same journey from home to SF. with good wishes from Somerset.
We , were there in aug, walking the opposite direction, With our dear friend singersongwriter James John Turner, this is so amazing, we're almost there, OMG! So love this!
The centre of dual carriageway was nos 4 and 5 tram. Replaced by buses mid 50s. I went to school from 1951 on 72 bus. Hunts Cross to The Philharmonic Hall.
Yes, in those Liverpool environs you do get a great feel about how they grew up. John and Paul - a very nice homelife. George and Ringo - much more humble.
For a moment , can imagine walk to menlove ave seeing every thing that the camara captures, all that beatles history stuff aside, Liverpool has Beautiful places.
Unfortunately, John’s house wasn’t yet open to the public the last time I was in Liverpool. But I’ve been to the outside several times. And I’ve been inside Paul’s house on Forthlin Rd. One of the highlights of my life!!!!
Cool to see the neighborhood…& the gates… I miss John and all the music we never got to hear… so sad and such a waste… damn you M.C. … damn you…!!! Peace…🌜🌞🌛
Awesome!! I' ve always wanted to know how far on foot Strawberry Fields was from his house. Thank you! Keep making videos like this one, please. I live far from England, but one day I'll go to Liverpool and stay some days to explore the city❤
It’s a nice area but a busy ol’ road. We go over to Liverpool city centre regularly as my son lives there. The firm he works for was involved in some work at the strawberry fields community centre? a couple of years ago. He probably didn’t truly appreciate the enormity of it being younger. I was impressed tho..
I remember standing on that front lawn back in 1991. At the time it was owned by a doctor and not the National Trust so that was the extent of what I was able to do at that location. Visited Strawberry Fields as well. Quite magical.
I know the area well, I used to visit it regularly back in the day when heading to England for school reunions at my boarding school. I always made a point of getting the old Norse Ferries boat over from Belfast to Liverpool, and spending a weekend there walking around taking it all in. Great wee city of amazingly friendly people. Good memories, thanks for that.
That street corner, in front of the apartment complex where they lived, is where John's mother died. She was anxiously waiting for him to come home because it had gotten late.
Amazing. Except for the cars going the other way, it reminds me a lot of places I've Seen in MA, especially Worcester, Medford (Meffah), Arlington, Cambridge, and Brookline.
JUST 7 MINUTES IT TOOK THIS PERSON TO GET FROM LENNON;S UPBRINGING HOME TO STRAWBERRY GATES .... I WAS HERE IN LIVERPOOL LAST (MAY) BUT I NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO GET TO BEACONSFIELD ROAD UP TO THE GATES ....GOD IT KILLS ME !😭😭😭😭😭🎵🎵🎵💖💥🔥👍 AS THE BEATLES SONG IS ACTUALLY ONE OF MY VERY TOP FAVOURITES .....LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN CAUSE I;M GOING TO STRAWBERRY FIELDS ...NOTHING IS REAL....AND NOTHING TO GET HUNG ABOUT !.... STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER !.....I LOVE YOU LIVERPOOL 💖💖💖💖💖💐💐💐😭😭😭😭🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🐐🐐🐐🐐🔥💥👍..PS : MAYBE ONE DAY I MIGHT COME BACK ....BUT SURE IS HELL I WILL PROMISE MYSELF I WILL GET TO THIS ENCHANTED AND MAGICAL PLACE ...AND TAKE SOME PHOTOS ....MAN, NOW I AM TEARING UP 😭😭💐💖🎵👍
I feel your pain. Wentvto Amsterdam and was waiting anxiously to see the Van Gogh museum. Who knew you needed to make reservations. I was despondent and furious.
@@jamesm.3967 I AM NOT YELLING 😂😂😂😂😂😂....I JUST LOVED WRITTING IN CAPS ....I HONESTLY TRY TO RECTIFY THAT ....BUT I PREFER THE CAP LETTERS (TBH ) THEY ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE STANDARD ONES 😂😂😂😂😂😂💖🥳
I was there in 1994, when the house was still privately owned; before Yoko purchased and donated to the National Trust. Also when the original Strawberry Field gates still hung.
@@michaelworse6034no because they were stolen and sold to a scrap merchant who realised what they were. He gave them back to the Salvation Army and now they are inside the grounds for safety so you can still go and see them.
Three of us tourists booked a Fab Four taxi for a Beatles tour and split the cost. Fantastic. Note, you have to book through the National Trust to tour the Lennon and McCartney houses. Also fantastic.
I was there in 2014 and stayed at the Beatles hotel. Great place, good price. They hooked me up with a private tour guide who took me everywhere, even Julia's grave (shh-not alowed) and Elinor Rigby's grave. (yes, she existed) Ask at front desk. While in the yard where Paul & John met, we saw the tour bus go by - they only slow down for the photo op and don't see Elinor's grave across the street! I also took the Trust tour and was inside Lennon and McCartney's homes, even the bathrooms with original linoleum!
When I was there in December 2018, there was some construction going on, and we too were left at the gate. Very interesting. For hardcore Beatles fans the tour is worth it. Liverpool is a surprisingly pleasant city.
I did the same walk on a rainy day in July 2020. The house ,like most attractions in Liverpool was closed at the time. I then walked to Paul's house ,then took a bus to Penny Lane.
Lennon occasionally liked to put on an act about being a working class product. But this video (and other similar ones) show that his upbringing was middle class through and through.
What a lovely idea! Thank you for posting this. How about a walking trip from Mendips to 20 Forthlin Rd one day? How cool it would be to see the path John and Paul traveled to one another's homes! 🙂
Es genial!!! ... me imagino a John de chiquillo caminar o corrrer de su casa a ese lugar. Núnca se imagino que él mismo iba a inmortalizar a straberry fields
I like to walk from John's house to Paul's... If you go the the opposite direction than in this video, cross Menlove Avenue and up the paved area of the golf course, I'm pretty sure that's the way John would ride his bike to Paul's house.
This looks just like the house that was shown in the movie FOOL ON THE HILL. His mother, Julia, lived there with her second family. The man who played him as a teen would walk over to her home and visit her. I’ll bet the the house used in the movie. I really enjoyed that movie.
Como otras personas han comentado; yo también entré, hace un par de años, en las casas de John y Paul. También ha sido una de las cosas que más gratas que me llevaré de ésta vida! Ahora lo pienso y me parece como un sueño pero fue algo real!!
It seems to me that John grew up in a very posh neighborhood of Liverpool. And as much as he portrayed working class, he was not working class like Paul, George and Ringo.
Idk anything about Liverpool places, I'm not British, but is this place really considered as posh place in the 50's or 60's? Wasn't at the time house prices, even in London, was more affordable? It doesn't look like a big mansion to me, just a nice medium detached house with a pretty garden.
@@NurmaBP I grew up in the 50's and 60's in Manchester ( not too far from Liverpool ), and to me anyone living in a semi-detached house was a bit posh.
John, Paul and George went to grammar schools. To attend grammar school, you had to pass an exam called 11+ at eleven years old. Only 25% who entered passed. Grammar school education was very academic (George complained of having to learn latin). It was a gateway to Oxford and Cambridge, if you were gifted and/or put the work in. Hardly "working class". Ringo lost a lot of time at primary school due to illness which would have affected his ability to pass the 11+. I always thought John's "Working Class Hero" to be a bit patronising.
Originally a Salvation Army children's home, now its a centre to help disadvantage young people get work. There's a cafe there, Beatles exhibition and a John Lennon walk
It may be a nice house, in a nice middle class area but that ignores the long lasting trauma of Lennon's early childhood, being pulled from pillar to post early on by his mother and father and then, at the age of five, being left in the care of a loving but stern and unsympathetic aunt and being separated from his mother for a number of years. Plus, Aunt Mimi wasn't that comfortably off, she had to take in lodgers to help pay the mortgage.
0:40 is facing the spot where Julia, John’s mother, was hit and killed by an off-duty constable. Her death had a serious impact on John and his behavior in the early Beatle years.
Every time i drive past John's old house, i look up at the bedroom window & say " alright John lad", even though i only live 10 minute's away from these 2 places, its still a thrill to see them, at 68 i just missed out on the lads, but my sister used to go & watch them in the Cavern in the early 60s. They did us proud they did.
I can’t even for a second comprehend in my mind that those geniuses used to walk these very same footsteps. They achieved and attained such a massive status that you almost forget they were real people who like eveyone else who struggled and had emotions and dreams and hopes.
Yes you can and no we don't.
Worked incredibly hard and persevered. Never quit and of course, clearly had talent, which they developed over years.
Thank you from Canada
Geniuses? Seriously? I am one of the Beatles biggest admirers and can sing and play every one of their songs but please don't fawn all over them and call them geniuses It makes you look stupid...
They didn't. They went over the fence in John's backyard through the tree that is now gone. The tree is in the song. Going that way was nothing to get hung about.
John used to enter Strawberry Field from Vale Road, which runs from the corner and around back of his house. He used to jump the wall there and enter the thick trees and woods, which now is a housing estate so it looks much different now.
you are correct sir.
@@pandaman1968Vale rd
@@pandaman1968Vale Road is.
@@archangelmusic13 Ed McMahon!
@@Thejbirdy you are correct sir! haha
I lived just along Menlove ave at the same time and age as JL. I also used to walk along to Strawberry Field to play. Funny to think that I might have played with him aged 6 or 7. My sister and I hung around in Penny Lane roundabout as well. My gran knew Paul.
Just one more comment. I am probably one of only two people still alive that know how Forthlin Road got it's name! My granddad was the building quality inspector who also had to name all the roads in the region!
@@lharris828 So how did Forthlin Rd. get its name?
@@michaelorenstein9165 Granddad was the Clerk of Works for that region of Liverpool (Allerton) and he had to not only monitor building quality of all the houses but to name the roads as well. The roads are there for named after all the local councillors. No problem - except the councillor Linforth did not want his name included! So granddad simply reversed the two sections of his name! Councillor Linforth was apparently impressed and agreed with the idea. Hence.
@@lharris828 Very interesting!! Thanks. A now-deceased friend was a cousin of Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. Wish I had a way to contact Mark. I bet he'd be interested in that type of small detail.
Ive been inside both John and Pauls houses and its one of highlights of my life
How much was the tour?
@@dougj729560.000 pounds.
Thanks for the video! Hard to believe I took that same walk 42 years ago. After knocking on "Aunt Mimi's door" in December '81, a woman answered but denied my request to take a quick look-see. I then took your route to Strawberry Fields. The gates were wide open, so I walked right in. Earlier that day, the owner (Mr. Jones) of McCartney's former home on Forthlin Rd opened his door and was very hospitable, allowing me in. I really can't blame the woman in the Menlove home.....I'm sure she had grown tired of all the requests. Still, two wonderful memories!
@@michaelorenstein9165 the house and the fields dont mean anything.
The places dont right songs. You can visit them, but they have nothing to do with music.
@@leonardoiglesias2394 What the hell are you rambling about. Seek help!
Interesting wee video for Lennon enthusiasts the world over. Well worth posting.
Lovely walking tour from John's house to Strawberry Fields. 🍓
Correct name Strawberry Field
Thank you so much for this video! Wonderful for fans like me who will never be able to travel there to see it in person! Thanks again from the bottom of my heart!!
It was a very long time ago but I was blessed enough to go and had my pic taken outside of Strawberry Fields just like those tourists did-by the cab driver as well. It was a great day.
Que emoção! Obrigada.
John grew up in a beautiful home ! Good on Mimi !
Don’t forget Uncle George - RIP Sir.
Good on Mimi? She was a control freak. Took him from his mother and forbid him to see his half sisters. He may have had a good upbringing but it was his secret visits to his mothers that got him into music when she taught him the banjo
Yea, real working class hero from the burbs
Thank you very much for uploading the precious video. I visited John's house and Strawberry F. almost 30 years ago. It's a great memory, but I didn't walk like this way from John's house. It brings my memory back in my mind and now I can draw a new image of how John used to play in his childhood.
Glad you enjoyed it
It's a lovely and charming house.
It's more upscaled than I thought it would be. A very nice neighborhood
So no Muslim and Africans invading it yet?
Aunti Mimi and her husband were middle class and she was really proud of it.
Lots of moss but no graffiti.
Yes John was the most well off of all the guys.
He also went most counterculture, which is what usually happens...
Thank you very much! All impressions of childhood are priceless. So, we can understand John a bit better.
Read Julia Baird's (John's 1/2 sister) book Imagine That, you'll learn a lot more about John and his family. There's stuff that Julia only learnt later in life.
@@Resgerr Thank you. Did not know adout this book. When I read Pete Shotton’s book, it was far from common knowledge about John.
Very nice report.
I can imagine John walking that route in the 50's.
Greetings from Spain.
So cool. I was in Liverpool in Nov. of 2004...a couple of the greatest days of my life.
Little did John know that the song and his death would make the gates of this hallowed place immortalised by him so many years later
I wish john and George where still here,you know they would all get together and do "something "
Zumindest hat John diesen schönen letzten Song hinterlassen und George hat ja auch seinen Anteil daran gehabt. Danke Paul und Ringo und alle Helfer für die wundervolle Aufnahme von "Now and Than !" ❤
Beatles sind und bleiben für mich die beste Band der Welt ❤❤❤
Thank you, I appreciate a lot simple things like these! Walking through the Past
Thank you. how beautiful. I have never had a real idea visually of how the great man would’ve made that same journey from home to SF.
with good wishes from Somerset.
We , were there in aug, walking the opposite direction, With our dear friend singersongwriter James John Turner, this is so amazing, we're almost there, OMG! So love this!
The centre of dual carriageway was nos 4 and 5 tram. Replaced by buses mid 50s. I went to school from 1951 on 72 bus. Hunts Cross to The Philharmonic Hall.
Great video man, you get a real feel of what it must have been like for those two dreamers John and macca to wander around those streets
Yes, in those Liverpool environs you do get a great feel about how they grew up. John and Paul - a very nice homelife. George and Ringo - much more humble.
I pass this every day on my way to work and back ,my friend used to live across the road from his house in the 90s .Its a lovely area .
For a moment , can imagine walk to menlove ave seeing every thing that the camara captures, all that beatles history stuff aside, Liverpool has Beautiful places.
UN CAMINO DONDE LA NOSTALGIA QUEDA ILUMINADA CON LA MARAVILLA.
I traveled to Liverpool last August 2023 and I want to go back again after seeing this video!
I was there then it was our third visit in a year We did the BeatsTour in a replica of John's yellow Roller.
Now takes us on one Across the Universe.
I'm wondering how much bigger the Universe is since John wrote it in 1969?
Unfortunately, John’s house wasn’t yet open to the public the last time I was in Liverpool. But I’ve been to the outside several times. And I’ve been inside Paul’s house on Forthlin Rd. One of the highlights of my life!!!!
you might enjoy my compleat beatles remake documentary, i think you will.
I lived in Liverpool for 20 years and had no idea that Strawberry Fields was an actual place. You live and learn.
Cool to see the neighborhood…& the gates…
I miss John and all the music we never got to hear… so sad and such a waste… damn you
M.C. … damn you…!!! Peace…🌜🌞🌛
Chapman is supposed to have a parole hearing this month. I hope they will make him stay behind bars.
Amazing memories thankyou Beatles thankyou John Lennon ❤❤❤
Thank you so very much! This is perfect for us Yanks who might never get to Liverpool. Thanks again.
Cant wait. Im going to see this with my local church choir Sunday coming. Lets hope the weather holds out.
Have a lovely time.
Let me take you down ...
Let me take you down, cause I'm going to, Strawberry Fields!
Great ❤.Hope you‘ll enjoy . Love from Germany .Magical ❤
Awesome!! I' ve always wanted to know how far on foot Strawberry Fields was from his house. Thank you! Keep making videos like this one, please. I live far from England, but one day I'll go to Liverpool and stay some days to explore the city❤
NANDA are you under 40?
And enjoy and take care.
Thanks for taking me for a walk. I barked a few times. Sorry. Must be the animal in me. Anyways John was always good for a larf. The area was nice.
It’s a nice area but a busy ol’ road. We go over to Liverpool city centre regularly as my son lives there. The firm he works for was involved in some work at the strawberry fields community centre? a couple of years ago. He probably didn’t truly appreciate the enormity of it being younger. I was impressed tho..
Very cool!. It’s a nice neighborhood. I was surprised to learn that Johns family and upbringing was a bit more affluent than Paul’s.
The story Paul tells about the rich uncle giving John the money where they
went to I think Paris, and got Beatle Haircuts is what I remember.
Both John and Paul had it pretty good. George and Ringo - not as well.
@@ARIZJOEwrong. John was upper class, Paul and George working class, Ringo was poor.
@@Niko3387Y George lived in a small row house -not all that far from Rich. I stood there. Paul had a better upbringing.
@@ARIZJOE working class is not rich
It looks like a very lovely neighborhood.
251 Menlove Ave. Peace and love, from Indiana.
It looks like a nice, leafy area. Wide roads, lots of space and trees. Quite a good size end of terrace house with a decent garden.
It's quite a posh area.
It’s a semi detached house…or dooplex…
Don't worry all the third world illegals will change all that once they move into the area. Sooner than you think.
Not quite the working-class hero then.
@@jasongray4517 No, he wasn't.
Nice, walkable neighborhood.
Yes, frightfully affluent area.
A walk to Strawberry Fields, a immortal place, Johns masterpiece, Johns house is so special, means so much, , I wish I could see it
It's very cool. You should go.
Lovely walking with you, sans conversation or music, just a light and tumbled journey so to speak as Paul Simon might say.
I can't afford to go there,so thank you for the experience!
That was cool. Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
I remember standing on that front lawn back in 1991. At the time it was owned by a doctor and not the National Trust so that was the extent of what I was able to do at that location. Visited Strawberry Fields as well. Quite magical.
"living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see"" - strawberry fields forever
I've visited Strawberry Field once, but didn't know how close John L. lived. Dang! I'll probably never go back.
I'm from East Los Angeles. Orale.
I know the area well, I used to visit it regularly back in the day when heading to England for school reunions at my boarding school. I always made a point of getting the old Norse Ferries boat over from Belfast to Liverpool, and spending a weekend there walking around taking it all in. Great wee city of amazingly friendly people. Good memories, thanks for that.
That street corner, in front of the apartment complex where they lived, is where John's mother died. She was anxiously waiting for him to come home because it had gotten late.
Wow. Never realized it was right there by his house ! Sad.
Nós que somos estrangeiros, só conhecemos duas cidades no Reino Unido, Londres e Liverpool!
I was there in 1990, obviously before it was a museum. I found it myself and just walked the neighborhood. Could not go inside of course!
This is AWESOME !!!!! 😄😄😄👍👍👍😄
Thanks! 😄
brilliant
There are places I remember.
The song is so surreal and dreamy compared to the reality of the place itself.
❤❤❤
Forever, THE BEATLES (1960 / 2024)!
Thanks for that.
The song I want played at my funeral. THE Beatles song.
Amazing. Except for the cars going the other way, it reminds me a lot of places I've Seen in MA, especially Worcester, Medford (Meffah), Arlington, Cambridge, and Brookline.
JUST 7 MINUTES IT TOOK THIS PERSON TO GET FROM LENNON;S UPBRINGING HOME TO STRAWBERRY GATES .... I WAS HERE IN LIVERPOOL LAST (MAY) BUT I NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO GET TO BEACONSFIELD ROAD UP TO THE GATES ....GOD IT KILLS ME !😭😭😭😭😭🎵🎵🎵💖💥🔥👍 AS THE BEATLES SONG IS ACTUALLY ONE OF MY VERY TOP FAVOURITES .....LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN CAUSE I;M GOING TO STRAWBERRY FIELDS ...NOTHING IS REAL....AND NOTHING TO GET HUNG ABOUT !.... STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER !.....I LOVE YOU LIVERPOOL 💖💖💖💖💖💐💐💐😭😭😭😭🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🐐🐐🐐🐐🔥💥👍..PS : MAYBE ONE DAY I MIGHT COME BACK ....BUT SURE IS HELL I WILL PROMISE MYSELF I WILL GET TO THIS ENCHANTED AND MAGICAL PLACE ...AND TAKE SOME PHOTOS ....MAN, NOW I AM TEARING UP 😭😭💐💖🎵👍
I feel your pain. Wentvto Amsterdam and was waiting anxiously to see the Van Gogh museum. Who knew you needed to make reservations. I was despondent and furious.
Why are you yelling?
@@jamesm.3967 I AM NOT YELLING 😂😂😂😂😂😂....I JUST LOVED WRITTING IN CAPS ....I HONESTLY TRY TO RECTIFY THAT ....BUT I PREFER THE CAP LETTERS (TBH ) THEY ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE STANDARD ONES 😂😂😂😂😂😂💖🥳
I was there in 1994, when the house was still privately owned; before Yoko purchased and donated to the National Trust. Also when the original Strawberry Field gates still hung.
"A soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the National Trust"
So it‘s not the original gate anymore ?😢
@@michaelworse6034no because they were stolen and sold to a scrap merchant who realised what they were. He gave them back to the Salvation Army and now they are inside the grounds for safety so you can still go and see them.
I always thought I was like the 12th or 13th Beatle, for many reasons.
This video brings me closer to the 'gang'.
Now, I might be the 11th Beatle.
Three of us tourists booked a Fab Four taxi for a Beatles tour and split the cost. Fantastic.
Note, you have to book through the National Trust to tour the Lennon and McCartney houses. Also fantastic.
where did you come from if can I ask?
Good to know! I took the Magical Mystery Tour, and had no idea about the National Trust.
I was there in 2014 and stayed at the Beatles hotel. Great place, good price. They hooked me up with a private tour guide who took me everywhere, even Julia's grave (shh-not alowed) and Elinor Rigby's grave. (yes, she existed) Ask at front desk. While in the yard where Paul & John met, we saw the tour bus go by - they only slow down for the photo op and don't see Elinor's grave across the street!
I also took the Trust tour and was inside Lennon and McCartney's homes, even the bathrooms with original linoleum!
When I was there in December 2018, there was some construction going on, and we too were left at the gate. Very interesting. For hardcore Beatles fans the tour is worth it. Liverpool is a surprisingly pleasant city.
Seems quite a long walk for young John to play to in those days but surely a dreamy and enjoyable one..thanks for the tour
I use to walk 6 miles to school, five days a week. This is a short stroll. Grow up.
@@georgefaulk2528 such a bitter man are you going through something you're the one who needs growing up manchild..
John took a short cut down Vale Road.
They should play the song for background music...❤
wish I though about it before posting now
Nah, copyrights will kill the video. Everyone can hum it in their heads as they watch.@@manchestertimelapseproject
thought we'd never get there. now let's take a walk along the entire silk road. that shouldn't take very long. thanks for the video.
My bus home from work goes past there.
I saw an old picture of Menlove blvd and the center median was trolley tracks.
Lovely neighborhood.
I did the same walk on a rainy day in July 2020. The house ,like most attractions in Liverpool was closed at the time. I then walked to Paul's house ,then took a bus to Penny Lane.
How far of a walk from Johnl's house to Paul's Forthlin place ?
@@starrguitargoddess About 30 minutes.
Lennon occasionally liked to put on an act about being a working class product. But this video (and other similar ones) show that his upbringing was middle class through and through.
Loved the walk (or was it a pogo stick 🤣) many thanks ❤️
What a lovely idea! Thank you for posting this. How about a walking trip from Mendips to 20 Forthlin Rd one day? How cool it would be to see the path John and Paul traveled to one another's homes! 🙂
During summer:)
Thank you for such a beautiful ride....🎉❤
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Es genial!!! ... me imagino a John de chiquillo caminar o corrrer de su casa a ese lugar. Núnca se imagino que él mismo iba a inmortalizar a straberry fields
I worked at Strawberry Field in the early 1970s. So much has changed since then.😢❤
Interesting! Do you have any Lennon related stories to share?
@@manchestertimelapseproject I do
Nice neighborhood for Liverpool. Detached houses. Ringo didn’t grow up like that for sure.
John’s house was massive compared to the other boys.
What a cute beautiful place
Let it be of 10. Here, there, and everywhere=10 out 10, and SFF 12 out of 10. One of One of the music represents 20 th century.
I used to walk up that road to school every day, in the late sixties to mid seventies.
There was no graffiti by the gate then.
Gracias
Been waiting for this for a long time though it's a different route
Which route would suggest? I could make that walk next time / when weather improves
I like to walk from John's house to Paul's... If you go the the opposite direction than in this video, cross Menlove Avenue and up the paved area of the golf course, I'm pretty sure that's the way John would ride his bike to Paul's house.
I thought about but I wasn't sure how popular would be 20 min video of me walking down the narrow footpath:) I can do it if there's popular demand:)
This looks just like the house that was shown in the movie FOOL ON THE HILL. His mother, Julia, lived there with her second family. The man who played him as a teen would walk over to her home and visit her. I’ll bet the the house used in the movie. I really enjoyed that movie.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain
google maps says the walk should be done in 8 mins, no ticket to ride needed. well done
Como otras personas han comentado; yo también entré, hace un par de años, en las casas de John y Paul. También ha sido una de las cosas que más gratas que me llevaré de ésta vida!
Ahora lo pienso y me parece como un sueño pero fue algo real!!
Life goes on
A bit too f***ing quick if you ask me!
What a big and beatiful house, not precisely working class... I was hoping to see at least a glimpt of Strawberry Fields, not just the gate.
I’m waiting for good weather - I was filming that walk in the middle of December:)
It seems to me that John grew up in a very posh neighborhood of Liverpool. And as much as he portrayed working class, he was not working class like Paul, George and Ringo.
Idk anything about Liverpool places, I'm not British, but is this place really considered as posh place in the 50's or 60's? Wasn't at the time house prices, even in London, was more affordable?
It doesn't look like a big mansion to me, just a nice medium detached house with a pretty garden.
@@NurmaBP I lived in the general area in the 60s before I came to America with my parents and this was the home and area of upper middle class….
@@NurmaBP I grew up in the 50's and 60's in Manchester ( not too far from Liverpool ), and to me anyone living in a semi-detached house was a bit posh.
John, Paul and George went to grammar schools. To attend grammar school, you had to pass an exam called 11+ at eleven years old. Only 25% who entered passed. Grammar school education was very academic (George complained of having to learn latin). It was a gateway to Oxford and Cambridge, if you were gifted and/or put the work in. Hardly "working class". Ringo lost a lot of time at primary school due to illness which would have affected his ability to pass the 11+. I always thought John's "Working Class Hero" to be a bit patronising.
@@NurmaBP I am an American and I could not afford that house. It is a very nice home. You must be wealthy. Good for you.
What's behind the gates?
Originally a Salvation Army children's home, now its a centre to help disadvantage young people get work. There's a cafe there, Beatles exhibition and a John Lennon walk
@@Resgerr Thanks! Hope to visit some day.
It may be a nice house, in a nice middle class area but that ignores the long lasting trauma of Lennon's early childhood, being pulled from pillar to post early on by his mother and father and then, at the age of five, being left in the care of a loving but stern and unsympathetic aunt and being separated from his mother for a number of years. Plus, Aunt Mimi wasn't that comfortably off, she had to take in lodgers to help pay the mortgage.
0:40 is facing the spot where Julia, John’s mother, was hit and killed by an off-duty constable.
Her death had a serious impact on John and his behavior in the early Beatle years.
The House in nice certainly not working class would have loved to have lived on that road .
The area looks more affluent than I had expected
I think it's influence of 'Lennon Was Here':) I was surprise by that to though'
It was always a very middle class area, and always will be.
🚬🤠 how cool