12 Arnold Grove
12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree | |
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Victorian | |
Location | Wavertree, Liverpool, England |
Address | 12 Arnold Grove, Liverpool, L15 8HP |
Coordinates | 53°23′56″N 2°55′00″W / 53.398970°N 2.916643°W |
12 Arnold Grove is the birthplace and early childhood home of former
Harrison lived in the property for seven years, by the end of which his family had been living there for nearly 20 years. They finally moved out to 25 Upton Green in 1950. His eldest brother Harry recalled: "Our little house was just two rooms up and two rooms down, but, except for a short period when our father was away at sea, we always knew the comfort and security of a very close-knit home life."[4]
Harrison recalled that the only heating was a single coal fire, and the house was so cold in winter that he and his brothers dreaded getting up in the morning because it was freezing cold and they had to use the outside toilet.
Harrison once said of the house, "Try and imagine the soul entering the womb of a woman living at 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool 15. There were all the barrage balloons, and the Germans bombing Liverpool. All that was going on. I sat outside the house a couple of years ago, imagining 1943, nipping through the spiritual world, the astral level, getting back into a body in that house. That really is strange when you consider the whole planet, all the planets there may be on a spiritual level. How do I come into that family, in that house at that time, and who am I anyway?"[4]
See also
- Kinfauns – later Harrison home
- Friar Park – later Harrison home
- National Trustproperty
- 20 Forthlin Road – Not the birthplace, but the later family home of Beatle Paul McCartney, another National Trust property, called by the National Trust, The Birthplace of The Beatles
- 10 Admiral Grove – Ringo Starr's childhood home
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8118-5900-4.
- ISBN 978-1-4234-2138-2.
- ^ Chitty, Mike. "BBC – Liverpool Local History – Beatles – George Harrison's House". BBC. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ ISBN 0-306-80747-5.