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 12 Arnold Grove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here their four children were born—Louise (16 August 1931), Harry, Peter (20 July 1940) and George (24 February 1943).
George recalled the only heating was an 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.
20 Forthlin Road The birthplace and family home of Beatle Paul McCartney, another National Trust property, called by the National Trust, The Birthplace of the Beatles.
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 Magical Mystery Tours
20 Forthlin Road is one of the most important houses in the history of popular music.
At Forthlin Road, the whole period is vividly recalled by sympathetic restoration and by Michael McCartney’s stunning photographs.
And the Forthlin Road audio tour guides you through the house with the music and the memories of the people who were there - including Sir Paul and Michael McCartney.
www.cavern-liverpool.co.uk /mmt/forthlin.htm   (223 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Paul McCartney, was born June 18, 1942 at Walton Hospital where his mother had worked as a nurse.
Walton Hospital is in the northern part of Liverpool not far from Paul's teen-age home at 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool.
In the latter years of the Beatles' reign over pop-culture, McCartney wrote several universal ballads such as "Hey Jude", "Let It Be", and "The Long and Winding Road".
www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/p/pa/paul_mccartney.html   (873 words)

  
 Telegraph | Property | Keepers of the fame flame
Snug to the point of squashed, No 20 has just three tiny rooms downstairs (parlour, dining-room and kitchen) plus three shoebox-size bedrooms upstairs (one of which is John's and closed to the public).
The best part of the job is meeting the fans who have made the pilgrimage to Forthlin Road from places as far away as Hawaii and Siberia.
She is the National Trust's custodian of 2 Willow Road, the extraordinary Hampstead home which was built in 1938 by modernist architect Erno Goldfinger for himself and his family - and which is now lived in by Harriet and her family.
www.telegraph.co.uk /property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2003/11/22/ptrus22.xml&sSheet=/property/2003/11/22/ixpmain01.html   (1596 words)

  
 National Trust | 20 Forthlin Road | History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
20 Forthlin Road is a 1950's terraced house and the former home of the McCartney family.
In the autumn of 1956 Mary McCartney began suffering from chest pains and shortly afterwards she died of breast cancer.
Dominating the living room at Forthlin Road was an upright piano, which he had bought at the North End Music Store (NEMS) in Wafton Street from Harry Epstein, the father of the Beatles' future manager.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/cymraeg/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-20forthlinroadallerton/w-20forthlinroadallerton-history.htm   (559 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Travel | Cities | A day in the lives
Mind you, even on this beautiful spring morning as the lines of flowers waved gently in the breeze, the vivid yellow of our bus bearing on its flank the legend Day Tripper to Mendips and 20 Forthlin Road was sufficient to stop many of the good people of Woolton in their tracks.
Anxious to escape their gaze, we were out of the vehicle almost before Neil could open the doors, the house's resident curator Matthew leaning against the wooden gate that leads down the wide driveway.
The dull thump and clank of a small lad kicking his ball against the gates and the chatter of two women and a little girl broke through the mid-morning calm as we arrived outside the three-bedroom council house.
travel.guardian.co.uk /cities/story/0,7450,929999,00.html   (1866 words)

  
 WISEGUIDES : BEATLES TOURS OF LIVERPOOL with live Wiseguides!
Mendips was the childhood home of John Lennon, he lived there with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George and composed early songs in the front porch and in his bedroom.
20 Forthlin Road is a 1950's terraced house and the former home of the McCartney family, where the Beatles met, rehearsed and wrote many of their earliest songs.
All photography inside Mendips and 20 Forthlin Road or duplication of audio tour material is strictly prohibited.
www.angelfire.com /wi/wiseguides/BEATLESTOURS.html   (795 words)

  
 Mendips Forthlin and The Casbah
John Lennon's childhood home at 251 Menlove Avenue, affectionately known as "Mendips" is now open to tours, run by The National Trust.
They are run in conjunction with 20 Forthlin Road, Paul McCartney's home.
They are a must for Beatles fans everywhere, and have lovingly been restored to the period.
www.beatlestours.co.uk /mendipsforthlincasbah.htm   (153 words)

  
 Random Ramblings
By the time I was seated for my mid-morning treat I had only 20 minutes left before the appointed time to meet the mini bus.
The house on Forthlin Road is a terraced council house (in American-English that means rowhouse public housing).
20 Forthlin Road definitely has a more plain and threadbare look to it but the house was nonetheless cozy.
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 Aidan Quinn tours Liverpool
We had made arrangements for us to visit Paul's childhood home - 20 Forthlin Road (which is now a National Trust Property) so we made our way up to Speke Hall to catch the minibus.
20 Forthlin Road is the place Paul called home from the age of 12.
As we left Forthlin Road, it was just pulling in to the bus stop, so the four of us ran as fast as we could - and just about caught the bus!
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 .::Sugarplum fairy::. The Best Place for Beatles Fans!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This was a little row house, with its bay window thrust against the sidewalk, but it was located in a desirable district, and had a indoor toilet and a tiny backyard.
The bungalow is well set back from the road in almost an acre of land and is sorrounded by lush lawns and rose bushes.
Although every effort has been made to credit sources of material, some of the text, information and graphics used in this website may be the copyright of various unknown persons and is used to further the educational and informational aspects of this website, in the spirit of copyright rules.
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 The Observer | Travel | There are places I remember...
Because of Mendips' small size, visitors will be taken by minibus to look around it in combination with another National Trust property: 20 Forthlin Road, where Paul McCartney spent his childhood.
But as I left, my mind was jumbled with later songs such as the surrealist 'I am the Walrus' and the elegies 'Julia' and 'In My Life' - songs that took longer to surface, but still so clearly had their roots right here under the blue suburban skies.
The National Trust (0870 900 0256) offers The Birthplace of The Beatles: Mendips and 20 Forthlin Road Tour from Wednesday to Sunday, twice a day from Albert Dock (0151 708 8574) or Speke Hall (0151 427 7231).
www.observer.co.uk /travel/story/0,6903,925427,00.html   (1352 words)

  
 Planet - Liverpool, een trip naar 'memory lane'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Als je binnenloopt op 20 Forthlin Road, het huis van de McCartney's, stap je terug in de tijd.
Aan de hand van onder meer foto's van Paul's broer Michael, die een niet onverdienstelijk fotograaf was en zelf met een eigen band ook nog twee keer een nummer-een-hit scoorde, is het huis compleet in oude staat hersteld.
Dit huis is pas sinds het voorjaar van 2003 in bezit van de National Trust gekomen en helemaal in oude luister hersteld.
www.planetinternet.nl /planet/show/id=69397/contentid=399798/sc=ec5ddb   (1245 words)

  
 Liverpool - Lennon and McCartney's houses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Every week, from Wednesday to Sunday, there are now minibus tours, several times a day, both to here and to 20 Forthlin Road, the council house where Sir Paul McCartney was bought up in rather less style.
A couple of miles away in Allerton is 20 Forthlin Road, the family home of Paul McCartney and his brother, Michael.
The two boys lived here with their dad, Jim, in pretty awful circumstances: McCartney's mother died of cancer when he was a teenager, and his father had to bring the boys up alone.
www.manchesteronline.co.uk /entertainment/daysout/s/56/56340_liverpool__lennon_and_mccartneys_houses.html   (871 words)

  
 Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney was born James Paul McCartney at Walton Road Hospital in Rice Lane, Liverpool, on June 18, 1942.
Paul's mother, Mary, was a midwife and the family moved constantly before finally moving into 20 Forthlin Road in 1955.
Paul was the first Beatle to become involved in a solo career when he wrote the score for the movie The Family Way in 1967.
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 Encyclopedia: 251 Menlove Avenue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Live Forever is a song by British rock group Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher.
20 Forthlin Road A childhood home of Beatle Paul McCartney, another National Trust property.
Paul McCartney, as photographed by John Kelley for the 1968 LP The Beatles (aka The White Album).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/251-Menlove-Avenue   (820 words)

  
 Premium Music Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The house is to go to The National Trust, which already owns former Beatle Paul McCartney's childhood home at 20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool's Allerton district and opens it to the public.
Yoko Ono unveiled a bronze statue of her late husband John Lennon to complete the official renaming of England's Liverpool Airport as Liverpool John Lennon Airport Friday (March 15).
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled on Wednesday (March 19) that Stevie Wonder did not violate a copyright of his song, "For Your Love." Two songwriters, Derrick Coles and Gwendoyln Daniels, claimed to have a prior copyright to the song, but failed to prove their allegations in court.
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 Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: National Trust opens Paul McCartney's boyhood home to the public 07/22/98
A view of the row of mid-terraced houses on Forthlin Road, Liverpool, northwest England, where the young Paul McCartney and his family lived between 1955-1964.
But at No. 20 Forthlin Road, a young Paul McCartney played pranks, listened to pop records -- and wrote some of the Beatles songs that turned four Liverpool boys into music legends.
``My dear mother Mary had great aspirations for our family and was very proud and pleased when we moved to 20 Forthlin Road,'' McCartney said in a statement read during the tour of the three-bedroom house.
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 BeatlesandBeyond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John spent his first five years at 9 Newcastle Road (two blocks from Penny Lane), the family home of his mother, Julia Stanley.
John's mother was run over by a car and killed in front of Mendips when John was 17.
Paul McCartney's family moved to Forthlin Road in the Allerton suburb in 1955.
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 FDP - Forum
Twenty Forthlin Road, Liverpool was the local authority-owned home of the McCartney family from 1955 to 1964, when Paul, his brother Mike and
I was still living in the house when the Beatles found worldwide fame, so my memories of the house are closely connected with those times," he added.
For years, busloads of tourists visiting Liverpool have driven down Forthlin Road and stopped outside the three-bedroom house where McCartney and Lennon scribbled the songs that put the swing into the '60s and changed the face of pop music around the world.
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 Big News about The Beatles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ingred from Chandlers Ford (about 20 miles from where I live) has revealed that she is in fact Lennon's sister.
The house in 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool will be opened to the public on the 29th July 1998.
For more information on the property contact The Forthlin Road Booking Line on 0151 486 4006 in the UK (Outside UK +44 151 486 4006).
www.beatles.mcmail.com /bignews.htm   (259 words)

  
 Revista Speak Up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The grand houses owned by the National Trust are usually run by teams of specialist employees, but the Trust also operates a number of schemes whereby "custodians," or ordinary citzens, live in the properties on a full-time basis.
John Halliday (pictured below) is custodian of Paul McCartney's former home, a small council house, at 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool, where the future Beatle lived from 1955 until 1964 and where, with John Lennon, he wrote many of the group's early hits.
He was still living at Forthlin Road when the Beatles hit the big time.
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 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Northampton father and his son come together over the Beatles
Dad and kid communicate honestly and respectfully, the elder Smith never raises his voice, no tempers are lost, and Sam sounds like Linus in the "Peanuts" cartoons, earnest and wise beyond his years.
Early in the book Peter and Sam's fanaticism for all things Beatles takes the form of passionate investigation, as the younger Smith sits in his room devouring songs and statistics, unearthing the stuff of trivia buffs' dreams to delight his dad.
(Studying the 28IF license plate on the cover of "Abbey Road," Sam demystifies the "Paul Is Dead" myth with simple math: "Dad, no, he would have been twenty-seven.") But by the time they reach England, Smith can already feel his son moving on to new interests.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/04/08/northampton_father_and_his_son_come_together_over_the_beatles?mode=PF   (763 words)

  
 mccartney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was the later teenage home of Paul McCartney (born J...
The Long and Winding Road - The Long and Winding Road is a pop ballad that originally appeared on The Beatles' album ''Let It Be...
The Quarry Men - The Quarry Men were a little-known skiffle group formed around Liverpool, England in March 1957 by John Lennon.
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 Mike McCartneys Liverpool Life sixties black and white   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In amongst iconic images of Liverpool, like the menacing beak of a Liver Bird, are intimate family scenes, first cars, and candid shots of passing legends like Gene Vincent.
Many of these photographs capture moments in his childhood home - 20 Forthlin Road – of which Mike says: “it was a fascinating and concentrated volume of energy and memories, some sad, lots happy.
Every picture tells far more than just a story.” It was these evocative images that helped persuade the National Trust to take the unprecedented step of buying this ordinary Liverpool terraced house for the nation.
www.garlicpress.co.uk /pages/books/mmll.html   (501 words)

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