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| 10 Admiral
Grove - Ringo's childhood home |
"Ringo’s
mother was Elsie, she was a lovely person. She moved out, he bought
her a big house in Woolton. She came back a few times and said she
was sorry she’d ever left.
When
she moved out, Ringo’s uncle moved in, then they got a house in
Runcorn. So I’ve been here 26 years. His Auntie lived here and his
Grandmother lived in Madryn street,so he played over there a lot.
His
Auntie said, "I’ll swap houses, you come here and I’ll go there".
That’s how he came to live here since he was five. He had his 21st
here. They all came here; Cilla Black, Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Can you imagine 80 people for a 21st birthday in here? He got married
from here.
It
was worse then than it is now for people coming. There were people
never, never away from the door. Sitting in the yard. They had the
toilet in the yard then. They would all sit on the wall, waiting
for him to come down and go in the yard.
These
houses should have come down, only for Ringo living here. They said
they’d be up for 30 years. I’ve been here 26 years and they’re doing
them up. They’ve pulled this grove down, it’s not how it used to
be. It’s not the same.
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| Visitors'
book, recording the many tourists arriving at Admiral Grove |
I haven’t
even got one record of the Beatles. Somebody gave me a record and
said it should be in the right house. The girl who used to live
next door to this house, she came back a couple of years ago and
said she remembered cooking chips for them. She used to live in
number 11; "The times I’ve had in this house" she said.
A couple
in New Jersey have been coming to see me for ten years and I’ve
been writing to one in San Diego for 20 years. I’ve got that much
mail, I need a secretary to write for me. I can’t keep up with it!"
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