Strawberry fields are not forever

Interesting, ebeth.

I always like reading how people are inspired to come up with songs and stories - especially those odd little bits like "hung".

Is the place still operating as an orphanage?

Helen Carter
Thursday January 13, 2005
The Guardian

The Salvation Army children's home immortalised by the Beatles' song Strawberry Fields Forever is to close, it emerged yesterday.

The red brick pillars and wrought iron gates, around the corner from John Lennon's Aunt Mimi's home in Woolton, where he spent his formative years, have attracted fans over the decades.

Home to close gates forever

I forgot that he was abandoned...it makes sense now.

I remember hearing, some time ago that both Yoko Ono and Julian Lennon had donated a large sum of money to the home to keep it operating. It would be nice if it could be kept in it's current position rather than falling prey to some tacky Beatles museum. I've been there a couple of times and it really is quite an ordinary place. When you walk around the streets from the roundabout at the top of Penny Lane, up Menlove Avenue onto the ?'Strawberry' road you could be in any normal suburb, not the place that inspired one of the 20th Century's most important songs. I think, from Lennon's point of view, it was the feeling of childhood nostalgia you get from revisiting these places as we all do when we return to our childhood haunts. it reminds you you're an adult and you get such a warm feeling from the memories of these places. I must write a song called ?'Dean Village'. A smashing ?'leafy' little village right in the heart of Edinburgh's City Centre. It gives me ?'that feeling', so I know where John was coming from! It all seems quite unreal when you see it through an adults eyes. Hey, and nothing to get hung about!!! Boom boom!!! I get it!!! What a man!