THE CITY OF EDINBURGH WILL INSTALL A PLAQUE IN MEMORY OF JOHN LENNON
The plaque is set to be placed at the foot of Ormidale Terrace in the Murrayfield area, where John regularly spent time with his aunt and cousin until the age of 17.
John is said to have penned the song “Rain” in the cupboard under the stairs at his aunt’s house. The plaque will include lyrics from the hit All You Need Is Love.
The plaque is set to be unveiled with an event in Roseburn Park featuring Beatles music.
John´s summers in the city are said to have been among his happiest childhood memories and he described Edinburgh as one of his favourite places having enjoyed the festival, the Tattoo and rugby at Murrayfield.
The plaque has been secured thanks to the work of Murrayfield community councillor Pete Gregson.
According to the National, he said: “I am really pleased we have secured this as it’s taken a long time. We tried to get something on the parish church a few years ago as John liked to have a cigarette outside the church, but the elders didn’t agree to it. The housing association were really up for it. The family used to have a croft up in Durness and they have a John Lennon garden up there so I thought, why shouldn’t we have something? I’ve always been a Beatles fan and grew up with John Lennon’s music but only learnt of his association with the area I live in about eight years ago. It’s a funny story really because when John was about five his dad went away to New Zealand and the kids were left with their mum, but she struggled to cope so they ended up with her sister. So he spent a lot of time in Edinburgh between the ages of five and 17.We’ve already erected about seven plaques as a community council but nothing quite like this.We really wanted to mark his contribution to the place. He just enjoyed what everyone else enjoyed about Edinburgh.”
John Lennon travelled here with his family and relished summers on the white sand beaches of Sango Bay and the nearby Smoo Cave.
During the school holidays in 1956 (when he was 15), he paid a long visit to his Aunt Mater, Uncle Bert and cousin Stanley in Edinburgh, accompanied by Aunt Nanny, her nine-year-old son Michael and (Aunt) Harrie’s nine-year-old son David.
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