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20 Forthlin Road

Childhood home of Paul McCartney in Liverpool

Field	Value
name	20 Forthlin Road
image	Paulhousenationaltrust.JPG
image_size	260px
building_type	Terraced house
location	20 Forthlin Road,
Liverpool,
L18 9TN
coordinates
owner	National Trust
website

Liverpool, L18 9TN

20 Forthlin Road is a National Trust property in Allerton in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is the house in which Paul McCartney lived for several years before he rose to fame with the Beatles, and it is labelled by the National Trust as "the birthplace of the Beatles". It was also the home of his brother Mike and the birthplace of the trio the Scaffold, of which Mike was a member.

History

The house was built in 1949 and owned by the local authority, and the McCartney family moved into it in 1955 when Paul was at secondary school.

In 1965, Paul bought his father Jim a house in Heswall, a wealthy part of the Wirral.

The house has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1995. The Trust markets the house as "the birthplace of the Beatles", since this is the place where the Beatles composed and rehearsed their earliest songs.

Unlike Lennon's childhood home Mendips, 20 Forthlin Road does not have an English Heritage blue plaque and is currently ineligible to receive one. English Heritage issue a plaque once the figure has "been dead for 20 years, or has passed the centenary of their birth".

In February 2012, both this house and Lennon's childhood home at 251 Menlove Avenue were Grade II listed by Historic England.

The home was featured in an edition of Carpool Karaoke, which aired on 22 June 2018, episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden. Corden visited there with Paul McCartney, who said it was his first visit to the home since he moved away in his late teens.

References

"20 Forthlin Road, non Civil Parish – 1405225 | Historic England".
(13 June 2008). "Liverpool: Beatle Homes". [[Indiana University]].
(3 September 2009). "20 Forthlin Road". InfoBritain.
(2010). "20 Forthlin Road". [[National Trust]].
(2010). "Selection Criteria". [[English Heritage]].
"Selection Criteria for Blue Plaques". [[English Heritage]].
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-17210335 BBC News, 29 February 2012: ''Lennon and McCartney homes given Grade II listed status''] Linked 2015-06-18
The Late Late Show with James Corden. (2018-06-21). "Paul McCartney Carpool Karaoke".

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