December 8 - Today is the anniversary of John Lennon's death.
Photo taken in 1986 in London after seeing this play
I need to make this my motto. Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. – John Lennon
May 2010 - Liverpool England
Taken at The Beatles Story Museum at Albert Dock
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Cavern Club, Liverpool
The Quarrymen Skiffle Group, featuring John Lennon, made their first appearance at the Cavern on Wednesday 7th August 1957. A week earlier Ringo Starr is thought to have made his debut with the Eddie Clayton Skiffle group. Paul McCartney did not made his debut until 24th January 1958 with the Quarrymen. George Harrison had to wait until the Beatles made their first appearance at a lunchtime session on 9th February 1961.
August 2013 - New York NY
Imagine
Photo taken at Central Park in August 2013 when visiting with friends.
Strawberry Fields Forever
The Dakota where John lived and was shot on December 8 1980. The building is just across from Central Park.
And yes, we watched as a car was driven through the gates with a little Asian woman in the back seat. It dawned on us that it was Yoko and the doorman more or less confirmed it with a smile when asked.
Photos from our Magical Mystery Tour of Liverpool.
20 Forthlin Road is a National Trust property in Allerton in south Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is the house in which Paul McCartney lived for several years before he rose to fame with the Beatles, and it is labelled by the National Trust as "the birthplace of the Beatles".
The home was featured in an edition of Carpool Karaoke, which aired on the 22 June 2018, episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden. Corden visited there with Paul McCartney, who said it was his first visit to the home since he moved away in his late teens.
George Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, on 25th February 1943.
The term 'Unadopted' means the council are not responsible for the maintenance of the street.
251 Menlove Avenue named Mendips (after the Mendip Hills), is the childhood home of John Lennon.
The 1930s semi-detached property, which belonged to Lennon's Aunt Mimi and her husband George Smith. England. Lennon moved there in July 1946 at the age of five from 9 Newcastle Road, in the nearby suburb of Wavertree. Lennon lived at Mendips after his mother, who was living with her boyfriend, was persuaded that it would be better for his Aunt Mimi and George to take care of him. He remained at Mendips until mid-1963 when he was 22 years old.
Sentimental Journey by Ringo Starr has the distinction of being the first solo (non-avant-garde) studio album by a member of The Beatles, coming out just weeks before Paul McCartney’s debut. Starr chose to record an album of standards that were some of his mother’s and other family member’s favorites. The album’s cover was a photograph by Richard Polak, of a pub in Liverpool called The Empress. The people in the windows of the pub on the album cover are all relatives of Starr. The pub is just around the corner from where Starr was born at 9 Madryn St.
Penny Lane roundabout mentioned in song. Self-storage van just happened to be going by.
The earliest reference to the Gothic Revival mansion 'Strawberry Field' dates from 1870, when it was owned by one George Warren, a wealthy shipping magnate. On an 1891 Ordnance Survey map the building and its grounds appear as the plural 'Strawberry Fields', although this had changed by the 1905 survey. In 1912 it was transferred to another wealthy merchant whose widow sold the estate to the Salvation Army in 1934. It opened as a children's home on 7 July 1936 by Lady Bates in the presence of General Evangeline Booth, daughter of the Salvation Army founder. With a capacity of up to forty girls, boys under 5 were introduced in the 1950s. Later still, older boys also became resident.
Church Road where John’s father Alfred attended the Blue Coat School.
Walking around on our own we found the Hard Days Night Hotel is the world’s only Beatles inspired hotel.
Close by is the Cavern Club which deserves a post of its own.
Listen to Carpool Karaoke, mentioned above, with Paul taking a tour of Liverpool.
It is a long weekend here in Toronto as we kickoff the official start of summer and gardening season. However, the weather can be tricky at best and it is not unusual to have the three days roll out like this.
Queen's Park is an urban park in downtown Toronto. Opened in 1860 by Edward, Prince of Wales, it was named in honour of Queen Victoria. The park is the site of the Ontario Legislative Building, which houses the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Victoria Day (French: Fête de la Reine, or "Celebration of the Queen") is a federal Canadian public holiday celebrated on the last Monday preceding May 25, in honour of Queen Victoria's birthday. As such, it is the Monday between the 18th to the 24th inclusive, and thus is always the penultimate Monday of May. The date is simultaneously that on which the current Canadian sovereign's official birthday is recognized.It is sometimes informally considered the beginning of the summer season in Canada.
The holiday has been observed in Canada since at least 1845, originally falling on Victoria's actual birthday (24 May 1819). It continues to be celebrated in various fashions across the country; the holiday has always been a distinctly Canadian observance.Victoria Day is a federal statutory holiday, as well as a holiday in six of Canada's ten provinces and all three of its territories.
Because God forbid that Quebec would/could honour anything Englsih, In Quebec, before 2003, the Monday preceding 25 May of each year was unofficially the Fête de Dollard, a commemoration of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux initiated in the 1920s to coincide with Victoria Day. In 2003, provincial legislation officially created National Patriots' Day on the same date.
And to make you laugh, here she is looking less dignified on a trip we took to Liverpool England. Rumour has it that builders of this statue of Queen Victoria in Liverpool weren't paid so they made it look like she had an appendage.
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