"No-one could ever understand why John Prescott and the councillors - both Labour and Lib/Dem - ever wanted to demolish a house that is part of world music history. "Beatles fans in Liverpool and all over the world will want to thank the Government and Grant Shapps in particular for helping to save Madryn Street for posterity. Philip Coppell, Chairman of the Save Madryn Street campaign said: "This is a victory for common sense and for the ordinary people against the might of the town hall. John Lennon’s childhood home "Mendips"in Menlove Avenue, Woolton and Sir Paul McCartney family home at 20 Forthlin Road, Allerton. "We are hoping that the National Trust will take-on the property and run it as a tourist attraction" "This is the right thing to do with the circumstances of the housing market at the moment.” "These will be homes people want to live in and although it wasn’t the original plan, times have changed. Mr Kemp said: “We will be bringing some of the Welsh Streets properties back into use and one of those is number 9 Madryn Street. Mr Kemp who is chairman of Plus Dane, the social landlord that owns most of the Welsh Street homes said he was “very pleased” over the new scheme. Opposition Lib/Dem group leader on Liverpool City Council Richard Kemp revealed that 117 properties - about a quarter of those in the eleven "Welsh Streets" will be renovated. Now £2m Government grant has been awarded for renovating the street and the National Trust is being lined-up to add 9 Madryn Street to its list of Beatles birthplace attractions in Liverpool. It had been scheduled for destruction in a controversial housing renewal scheme promoted by John Prescott who described Ringo's birthplace as "of no significance".īut conservationists joined the battle to save the three-bedroomed Victorian property where Richard Starkie was born on 7th July 1940.Īnd last year Housing Minister Grant Shapps stepped in at the 11th hour to halt council bulldozers, urging the town hall officials and housing associations to look for alternatives. The Signature Edition is shipping now, with the Collectors Edition available to order (shipping begins towards mid-end March 2022).Fans have won a battle to save the home of former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr from demolition and it will be turned into a tourist attraction.īeatles fans in Liverpool and around the world had battled for three years to preserve the humble terraced house in Madryn Street, Liverpool Ringo Starr: Lifted is available now from Julien’s. So it’s about getting back and giving back.” “And in the end, that’s why this new book is called Lifted. We’ve all been through a pretty tough time for a lot of people who’ve been locked down, and this book has really lifted my spirits and took me back to where I once belonged in a whole new way. “So this a book full of Beatle images that many people haven’t seen and stories that I’m sharing with a little help from my longtime writer friend David Wild. “But along with great projects like Get Back, seeing so many of these amazing Beatles images has really brought back those days to me and all the love and friendship that we four shared back then. Ringo continues, “When people ask me about the Beatles, I often tell them, `You better ask Paul,’ because somehow he seems to remember everything. And the best thing is that it’s all for a good cause because the money is going to our Lotus Foundation. “After a while, I thought, how great it would be to ‘lift’ these fantastic photos and some of my other favourites for charity and tell my true tales that they inspire about what the four of us - John, Paul, George and Ringo - went through back in the day. In recent years, I’d gather these Beatles photos that I sometimes barely remembered. “A lot of the photos in this book I spotted on my phone and on my computer and ‘lifted’ them because they brought back so many fabulous memories.
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