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  John Lennon Biography
John Lennon lived with his mother, Julia, until his father, Fred Lennon, walked out on the family.
Julia Lennon decided that she was unable to care for John as well as she should and gave him to her sister Mimi, who lived nearby at 251 Menlove Avenue.
Julia Lennon was killed when she was struck by a car driven by an off-duty police officer when John was just 16 years old.
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  251 Menlove Avenue
251 Menlove Avenue, nicknamed Mendips, is a National Trust property in Liverpool England and the childhood home of Beatle John Lennon.
Despite having purchased the childhood home of Beatle Paul McCartney, the National Trust showed no interest in purchasing the Menlove Avenue property.
The property was eventually purchased by artist Yoko Ono, John Lennon's widow, who then donated the property to the National Trust.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/25/251_Menlove_Avenue.html   (227 words)

  
 251 Menlove Avenue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
251 Menlove Avenue, named Mendips, is a National Trust property, the childhood home of John Lennon, singer and songwriter with The Beatles.
Despite having purchased the childhood residence of Paul McCartney, the National Trust showed no interest in acquiring the Menlove Avenue property.
It was eventually bought by Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, who then donated it to the National Trust.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/251_Menlove_Avenue   (291 words)

  
 251 Menlove Avenue
251 Menlove Avenue, named Mendips, is a National Trust property in south Liverpool, England, and was the childhood home of John Lennon.
He remained here until 1963 when he was 23 years old, and The Beatles' hit She Loves You was written in its front living room.
It was eventually bought by Yoko Ono, John Lennon's widow, who then donated the house to the National Trust.
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 Definition of index.php?search=saks|fifth|avenue&limit=20&offset=80   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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 Homes
It was here he spent the first 5 years of his life prior to living with his aunt Mimi, Julia's sister, at 251 Menlove Avenue.
Once the Luftwaffe began bombing Liverpool in earnest, the McCartneys moved to 92, Broadway Avenue in Wallasey and the comparative safety of the Wirral.
Sadly, two of these, Roach Avenue in Knowsley and Sir Thomas White Gardens in Everton Valley, are no longer in existence.
www.beatlecity.com /homes.htm   (906 words)

  
 251 Menlove Avenue Article, 251MenloveAvenue Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
251 Menlove Avenue, named Mendips, is a National Trust property in south Liverpool, England, and was the childhood home of JohnLennon.
The five-year-old Lennon moved to this address in 1945 when his mother Juliasent him to live with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George.
Despite having purchased the childhood residence of Paul McCartney,the National Trust showed no interest in acquiring the Menlove Avenue property.
www.anoca.org /childhood/national/251_menlove_avenue.html   (249 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Menlove   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Freshman Amy Menlove broke both her 200m and 60m dash records she set as a high school student at the Olympic Oval.
Mitch Menlove, executive director of the Central Arizona Chapter of the Community Associations Institute, said he couldn’t comment on the bill because he hasn...
It was at 251 Menlove Avenue where he listened to three teenage friends jamming on their guitars, preparing to become the biggest band in history.
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 Amazon.com: "Menlove Avenue": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
That's when I said I wanted to bring John to Menlove Avenue to live with George and me. I wouldn't even let him risk being hurt or feeling he was in the...
Not long after he had started at Quarry she started coming to Menlove Avenue, making sure first that John was around.
John's crowd tended to meet at Nigel Whalley's house in Vale Road, near Menlove Avenue.
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 John Lennon's Liverpool Home Donated
251 Menlove Avenue had an important influence over the emerging talent of the chief Beatle.
Paul McCartney's Liverpool home at 20 Forthlin Road in the city's Allerton district is already open to the public as a National Trust treasure.
The fact that this is happening in the same week that Liverpool airport is officially opened as Liverpool John Lennon airport would have made my husband very happy," Ono stated.
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 John Lennon
John Lennon lived with his mother, Julia until his father, Fred Lennon, walked out on the family.
Julia Lennon decided that she was unable to care for John as well as she should and gave him to her sister Mimi, who lived nearby at 251 Menlove Avenue.
Julia Lennon was killed when she was struck by a car driven by an off duty police officer when John was just 16 years old.
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 The AOL CANADA Crossword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Struck by a Lightning Bolt was the complacency of culture.
She lived with her husband George Smith at 251 Menlove Avenue.
Bricks from an original downstairs wall of John’s still-standing house on Menlove were recently put on the auction block, and British pop-star George Michael just paid over $3.2 million (Canadian) for the Steinway piano that John used in composing his famous peace anthem "Imagine".
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 wikien.info: Main_Page : 2/25/251   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
251 is the natural number between 250 and 252.
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Its surface is lightly coloured indicating a non-carbonaceous composition.
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 Liverpool Menlove Avenue L25 street sign | Photo by Aidan O'Rourke Manchester photographer writer website publisher
This is the street sign sign 200 yards away from one of Liverpool's most famous addresses: 'Mendips' number 251 Menlove Avenue, home of John Lennon from 1945 until 1963.
The name 'Menlove' has a curious ring to it, rather like 'Strangelove' in the film by Stanley Kubrick.
Menlove Avenue is a long, very attractive avenue in suburban south Liverpool.
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 The House That Can't Forget a Boy With a Guitar
The short trip out from Liverpool's city center ends at 251 Menlove Avenue, a two-story beige stucco house indistinguishable from others along the tree-lined block except for the oval blue English Heritage plaque on its facade.
She managed to maintain a relationship with her son, however, and was the one who taught him to play his first guitar in 1956.
Then in 1958 she was killed by a car in front of Mendips as she crossed Menlove Avenue to catch a bus after a visit.
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 Love2escape Multitrackers Strawberry Fields Panorama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Strawberry Field is just off Menlove Avenue, on the Beaconsfield Road.
It is situated on the slope of a hill.
Turn left and John's (ie Aunt Mimi's) semi-detached house can be found on the left hand side (251 Menlove Avenue).
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 Timbo's Liverpool - John Lennon Biography
He lived with his parents, Alfred and Julia, until the age of five when Alfred deserted Julia and left her to cope alone.
Julia eventually placed John in the care of her sister, Mimi Smith and her husband George, at 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton.
In 1946 John's father, Freddie, returned from America and tried to pursuade his young son to leave the country with him.
www.timbosliverpool.co.uk /beatles/lennon.htm   (967 words)

  
 BBC News | SHOWBIZ | Yoko buys Lennon's childhood home
There had been fears that it would go to someone who may have had little sympathy for its unique place in the history of popular music.
I think Menlove Avenue has an important place in Beatles history
Lennon wrote the early Beatles hit Please Please Me at Menlove Avenue.
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 251 Menlove Avenue - Definition up Erdmond.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
He remained here until 1963 when he was 23 years old, and The_Beatles' hit ''She Loves You'' was written in its front living room.
Despite having purchased the childhood residence of Paul_McCartney, the National Trust showed no interest in acquiring the Menlove Avenue property.
It was eventually bought by Yoko_Ono, John Lennon's widow, who then donated the house to the National Trust.
www.erdmond.com /251_Menlove_Avenue.html   (203 words)

  
 John Lennon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
John Lennon's childhood years were struck with He lived with his parents in Liverpool until his father Fred Lennon walked on the family.
His mother Julia then that she was unable to care for as well as she should and so him to her sister Mimi who resided at 251 Menlove Avenue.
Although John lived apart from his he still kept in contact with her regular visits and during this time she responsible for introducing her son to a interest in music by teaching him how play the banjo.
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 BBC - Liverpool Local History - Beatles - John's House
251 Menlove Avenue was John's home with Aunt Mimi from 1945 to 1963.
It was here that John was positively discouraged from playing the guitar, with Aunt Mimi stating,"The guitar's all very well John, but you'll never make a living out of it!" When John became famous, he had the words framed and gave them to his Aunt.
The Magical Mystery Tour takes avid fans to all the Beatles 'hotspots', including Menlove Avenue and Strawberry Fields.
www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/localhistory/journey/stars/beatles/houses/johns_house.shtml   (174 words)

  
 IK! Instant News !
A petition is circulating against the auction of the bricks from John Lennon's Menlove Avenue home, where he was raised.
We resolutely and emphatically object to the sale of the bricks removed from John Lennon's former Menlove Avenue home in Liverpool and appeal to you to immediately cease this sale.
In the "Imagining Lennon" article, Matthew Gwyther writes that some of the footage was shot in John's early home on Menlove Avenue where he was raised by his Aunt Mimi (Mary Smith).
www.instantkarma.com /instantnewsnov00.html   (2206 words)

  
 BeatlesandBeyond
John's mother was run over by a car and killed in front of Mendips when John was 17.
From 1946 until 1955, the McCartney family lived in the sprawling Speke industrial development south of Liverpool, first at 72 Western Avenue and then at 12 Ardwick Road.
Paul McCartney's family moved to Forthlin Road in the Allerton suburb in 1955.
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 Preservation Online: Today's News Archives
Ono announced Friday that she has donated the 1930s-era house to Britain's National Trust, which already owns and operates the boyhood home of former Beatle Paul McCartney in the same city.
From the age of five in 1945 until 1963, Lennon lived with his aunt Mimi in the three-bedroom, semi-detached house at 251 Menlove Ave., not far from Penny Lane, the street commemorated by the Beatles in their 1967 song.
Ono was in Liverpool last Friday to unveil a new seven-foot-high statue of Lennon at the city's airport, which has been renamed in honor of the late Beatle.
www.nationaltrust.org /Magazine/archives/arc_news/031802.htm   (316 words)

  
 YOKO ONO BUYS JOHN LENNON'S CHILDHOOD HOME
After his parents split up when he was five, John went to live at 251 Menlove Avenue with his Aunt Mimi
John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono has bought the former Beatle’s childhood home — where he learnt to play guitar and wrote some of the band’s early hits — in order to donate it to the National Trust, it was revealed on Thursday.
Negotiating anonymously through a third party, Yoko is believed to have paid more than £150,000 for the semi-detached property at 251 Menlove Avenue in Liverpool, where John lived with his Aunt Mimi from the age of five, after his parents split up.
www.hellomagazine.com /music/2002/03/15/lennonhome   (478 words)

  
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March 15: It is announced that Yoko Ono has purchased John Lennon's childhood home at 251 Menlove Avenue in Liverpool and donated the home to the National Trust.
The BBC reported she worked anonymously through a third party and was "thrilled" at the purchase, which reportedly cost more than £150,000.
The fact that this is happening in the same week that Liverpool Airport is officially opened as Liverpool John Lennon Airport would have made my husband very happy." A private foreign company was said to be interested in the house, and it was also feared someone with no music interest would buy it.
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