Lennon’s school drawings up for sale

JOHN LENNON’S old school exercise book - complete with an illustration of a walrus - is expected to fetch up to €145,000 at a forthcoming auction.

Compiled by Lennon at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool in 1952, the book contains eight drawings in pen, pencil and watercolour, depicting verses from classic poems.

One of the poems was Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus And The Carpenter which later inspired the 1967 Beatles song I Am The Walrus.