Strawberry Field, the childhood refuge of John Lennon, re-opened to the public last weekend.
I attended a preview a few days before, writing an article for iTravel.
Here’s a preview of my feature:
The former Salvation Army children’s home, made famous in the 1967 Beatles song, has re-opened with a new permanent exhibition about Lennon’s early life [pictured above], a community garden and café.
The young Lennon would often play in the garden after he moved to live nearby with his aunt Mimi when his mother started a new relationship.
He would meet Paul McCartney at a local church fete in the late Fifties.
But Strawberry Field remained, as Lennon later expressed in the song’s lyrics, a place where, “Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about”.
“John always said Strawberry Field was his favourite song and he referred to it as his psychoanalytic poem,” says Julia Baird, Lennon’s younger, half-sister and the Honorary President of the Strawberry Field project.
Read the full story in iTravel here.
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