Antiques Roadshow star drops eye-watering worth of John Lennon's childhood item
An Antiques Roadshow guest was left stunned by the huge worth of an 'iconic' door number from John Lennon's childhood home. An Antiques Roadshow visitor was left stunned to discover that an item from John Lennon's childhood home was worth £8,000. The BBC show filmed in Sefton Park Palm House, Liverpool, with a repeat episode broadcast on Sunday, 26 July. One visitor brought an item from their uncle's home, that had actually originally been part of The Beatles star's childhood house.
According to reports, Lennon - who died in 1980 at the age of 40 after being shot outside his New York City apartment building - reportedly lived until the age of five in the Wavertree suburb in Liverpool, before living with his aunt and uncle at 251 Menlove Avenue.
The property is now a preserved site, and saw Lennon live there from 1945 until 1963.
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Antiques Roadshow expert Raj Bisram met the guest on the show, who had brought along the door number from Lennon's childhood residence. As the audience expressed their astonishment, the visitor revealed: "In 1965, when John Lennon, the Lennon family decided to sell their home, a couple bought it and they moved in for just a couple of months and they sold it and moved on.
"The next couple that bought it, they didn't tell them that it was John Lennon's house, so they moved in, were having breakfast one morning, opened the curtains and there were five people in the garden taking photographs.
"That was when they realised they lived in John Lennon's house. They didn't like The Beatles very much, and they lived there for about 36 years, chasing people out of their garden, but the interesting thing about that story for me is that the person that lived there was my uncle," reports the Express.
Raj responded: "That's fantastic, that's provenance taken care of." The visitor went on: "I was one of the few Beatles fans that got into the house for about 36 years. When he was making changes to the gate, he gave me the old number plate."
Source: liverpoolecho.co.uk/Meghna Amin
