Strawberry Fields Forever

A walk - soon to be Superlative  - around the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, taking-in a number of sites of significance in relation to the Beatles. These are the gates to Strawberry Fields which inspired the song.

The walk started near to St Peter's Church,  where Eleanor Rigby "was buried along with her name."

Near the Church and just around the corner from Strawberry Fields is Mendips, on Menlove Avenue, John Lennon's childhood home.

Penny Lane is about 1.5 miles walk towards the City, where the barber still "shaves another customer."

Back towards Woolton, I passed Calderstones School formerly Quarry Bank High School, which John Lennon attended in the 1950s and formed The Quarrymen, who became the Beatles.

Three sites of note in Calderstones Park - the actual Calderstones, used nearby to build a "dolmen" or burial chamber 4000 years ago; the Linda McCartney playground, named after the first Mrs McCartney; and the Allerton Oak, over 1000 years old and site of a pre-courtroom court.

Finally, 20 Forthlin Road, Paul McCartney's tidy and modest childhood home, only about a mile from that of John Lennon.

Throughout the 49 mile traffic jam that passed for a drive home, I listened to, and sang along with, Beatles songs.