| 20 Forthlin Road | |
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| Type | Terraced house |
| Location | 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool, L18 9TN |
| Coordinates | 53°22′11″N2°53′52″W / 53.369667°N 2.897889°W /53.369667; -2.897889 |
| Owner | National Trust |
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20 Forthlin Road is aNational Trust property inAllerton inLiverpool,Merseyside, England. It is the house in whichPaul McCartney lived for several years before he rose to fame withthe Beatles, and it is labelled by the National Trust as "the birthplace of the Beatles". It was also the home of his brotherMike and the birthplace of the triothe Scaffold, of which Mike was a member.
The house was built in 1949[1] and owned by thelocal authority, and the McCartney family moved into it in 1955 when Paul was at secondary school.
In 1965, Paul bought his father Jim a house inHeswall, a wealthy part of theWirral.[2][3]
The house has been in the ownership of theNational Trust since 1995.[4] The Trust markets the house as "the birthplace of the Beatles", since this is the place where the Beatles composed and rehearsed their earliest songs.
Unlike Lennon's childhood homeMendips, 20 Forthlin Road does not have anEnglish Heritageblue plaque and is currently ineligible to receive one. English Heritage issue a plaque once the figure has "been dead for 20 years, or has passed the centenary of their birth".[5][6]
In February 2012, both this house and Lennon's childhood home at251 Menlove Avenue wereGrade II listed byHistoric England.[7]
The home was featured in an edition ofCarpool Karaoke, which aired on 22 June 2018, episode ofThe Late Late Show with James Corden.[8] Corden visited there with Paul McCartney, who said it was his first visit to the home since he moved away in his late teens.
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