Some photos and an odd fact

From a Liverpool Beatles tour that I did today, in between yesterday’s end of the Oxford academic symposium and tomorrow’s one-day Oxford summer conference:

1) Here’s where Julia Lennon was killed in July 1958 by a bus, moments after saying goodbye to John at the Mendips house where he was living with his Aunt Mimi.

2) On a more cheerful note, this is Strawberry Fields. And here’s an odd fact: according to my guide, when Mimi would tell John that he’d get in trouble for climbing over the wall to spend time here (which he did around the back, not at the front gate), he’d reply: “They won’t hang me for it, you know.” The guide suggests that this is (part of?) what he had in mind when he wrote the line “Nothing to get hung about.”

3) And here’s the Penny Lane roundabout. There’s also a barber shop and bank nearby, both apparently the same storefronts but extensively remodeled since back in the day.