Lennon’s early home opens to public

THE home where John Lennon grew up and wrote some of the early Beatles hits was yesterday officially opened to the public by his widow Yoko Ono.

Ono bought her husband’s childhood home, Mendips, last year after its previous owner died.

John Lennon lived at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, in Woolton, Liverpool, from the age of five to 23, when he left to enjoy the fame and fortune derived from the astounding success of the Beatles.