The Beatles anthology relocates to Sir Paul McCartney's childhood home
An unassuming Liverpool street went back in time on Monday as director Sam Mendes prepared to shoot scenes for his new anthology of Beatles films outside the childhood home of Sir Paul McCartney.
Mendes is currently working on an ambitious collection of films about the pioneering pop group and their emergence from Liverpool's subterranean Cavern Club to become the biggest and most influential band in the world.
Having already filmed raucous scenes in central London, the director and his team have relocated to Allerton and the modest street outside 20 Forthlin Road, McCartney's home for several years before signing his first record deal with The Beatles in 1962.
Built in 1949, the address was originally bought by McCartney's father Jim in 1955. He would remain their for a decade, until his son – by now a global star – bought him a new house in Heswell, a more prosperous part of the Wirral.
The terraced home, now a National Trust property, was a hive of activity as the street was cut off by traffic cones and diversions were created for oncoming vehicles.
With black tents and vintage cars lining either side of the road, production assistants were seen wheeling period-appropriate props and clothing onto the exterior set.
A production assistant was seen carrying a replica of Sir Paul McCartney's very first guitar, the Framus Zenith (Model 17) acoustic, as Sam Mendes continued filming his Beatles film anthology in LIverpool on Monday
The director and his team have relocated to Allerton and 20 Forthlin Road, McCartney's childhood home for several years before signing his first record deal with The Beatles in 1962
Early sixties-era bicycles, boxes and bags occupied space outside the property, as well as a variety of musical instruments – among them a replica of McCartney's first ever guitar, the Framus Zenith (Model 17) acoustic.
Source: dailymail.co.uk/Jason Chester
