Yet another location related to a Beatle's past in Liverpool could end up being demolished if current plans aren't changed.
ClickLiverpool reported Friday that a TV host and two young children recently made a presentation to the Liverpool City Council to save the building housing the Victorian plunge baths, which is where John Lennon learned to swim. The building has been closed since October, says the report, but was a functioning facility until then, which is behind the move to keep it open.
More recently, a campaign has been launched to save Ringo Starr's birthplace on Madryn Street from being demolished.
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Don't you think this is getting a little ridiculous...whats next the place where John Lennon had his first colonoscopy. :)
It's a fact.....but that I find a litle bit sad is to destroy quite all the oldest building that make the charm of Liverpool, despite the taste for modernism which has taken the town until several years....Oldest style is a real part of the town....
It is getting ridiculous...seriously. I understand that a place like Mendips or Forthlin Road are kept as they are, but the place where John learned to swim?? A Victorian bath, that house might be from the middle of the 19th century if not earlier, do you really think it is good for the environment to keep such a house? Just to keep it warm will be really bad for the environment, let alone keep the water warm etc.
If I were Liverpudlian I would go nuts with this....in the end they hate the Beatles as they are the cause why their city has to keep ruins instead of changing to face the next centuries.
Astrid
While I think it is important to save Madryn Street and historically and architecturally significant buildings, not everything can be preserved, and not everything the members of the Beatles have touched can be preserved.
What is next...save the public toilets because one of the members of the Beatles used them?
saving the place might be worth it but not because it's a beatles landmark
I'm with misfittoy...sounds like an interesting building in need of restoration and preservation, but definitely not because John Lennon learned to swim there. Although if that helps get it saved, it might be worth mentioning.
Remember, as George said, "All things must pass away"...even Beatles landmarks.
As a Victorian building the plunge bath may well be worth saving. But the fact that John Lennon learned to swim there is not particularly relevant. Those of us who think it is important to save Beatles history need to be concentrating on saving Ringo's birthplace at Madryn Street. This is particularly crucial since apparently the city also intends to tear down Admiral Grove as well. And isn't now the time to start working to protect George's birthplace at Arnold Grove? Or are we going to wait until that too is threatened?
And in other news today, a campaign is under way to save the alley where Paul McCartney and John Lennon once peed after a late-night bender.
That alley is now a holy shrine. It has been reported that it has a vision of Mother Mary has appeared there, speaking words of wisdom, "Stop peeing in the alley!"
As someone who actually lives in Liverpool all I can say is " Wake Up People " this run down old building shouldn't have been standing when Lennon learn't to swim there. Liverpool is once more an expanding vibrant city with lots of investment still coming through. I love the Beatles as much as anyone but you can't preserve every building they happened to pass through. LET IT BE !
I cannot believe this writer chose to write about "the place John Lennon learned to swim," as a landmark?
Who cares and who would possible go to see that?
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