Childhood home of former Beatles drummer saved from demolition following prolonged battle.
The childhood home of the Beatle once described as “not even the best drummer in the Beatles” by bandmate John Lennon has been saved from demolition following a long and protracted battle. It is not yet known whether Sir Paul McCartney had a quiet word in a royal ear during his cringe-making headlining of the recent Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace.
The house, a run-down three-bedroom Victorian terrace, was one of 400 buildings marked for demolition in the Dingle area of Liverpool, but Beatles fans and city residents have successfully lobbied to save the house, along with 15 others in the area.
The Liverpool City Council initially resisted efforts to preserve the house because Starr only lived at the location with his family for three months as an infant. The National Trust of England decreed that the house did not merit saving because of his brief stay there at a very early age, and that they simply did not have the means to acquire more than a dozen houses where the Beatles lived as children.
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