A Liverpool property which played a major role in Beatles history is set to go under the hammer.
John Lennon’s mother’s house on Blomfield Road in Allerton was significant in the musical development of The Beatles. It hosted jam sessions featuring Paul McCartney, George Harrison and the other members of The Quarrymen before they formed The Beatles took the world by storm.
The three-bedroom property was also once dubbed 'the house of sin' by John's aunt Mimi, who he eventually went on to live with on Menlove Avenue. John would visit his mother regularly and said she became like a "young aunt or big sister" figure to him in his teenage years.
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In her 2007 book Imagine This, John Lennon's sister Julia Baird fondly remembered the "hilarious" bathroom jam sessions: "The bathroom in our little house in Blomfield Road was probably one of the smallest in Britain.
"To see John, Paul, George, Pete Shotton, Ivan Vaughan, my mother and probably a couple of hangers-on scrambling around inside, trying to find a place to sit, was like a comedy act."
The band would regularly rehearse in the house from 1956 to 1958. Eric Griffiths of The Quarrymen once said: "We used to skive off school, buy ten Woodbines and a bag of chips then go to Julia's house. She always let us in."
The auction is set to take place on Monday, September 26 and the property will go under the hammer with a guide price of £250,000.
Omega Auctions is handling the sale. The firm previously sold the childhood home of George Harrison for £160,000.
Paul Fairweather, auctioneer at Omega Auctions, said: "This house is well known to Beatles fans and anyone who has even a passing interest in how the world’s most famous musical group came to be.
"We saw worldwide interest in our recent sale of George Harrison’s childhood home and we expect possibly even greater attention on this property. It has huge historical importance, is in a great area and is an established part of the Beatles tours around the city."
The property on Blomfield Road was last auctioned in 2015. It is currently a stop-off point on the Beatles Tour.
Julia Lennon was killed in a road accident on July 15, 1958. A 17-year-old John had been due to spend the summer holidays with her at the Blomfield Road address. He last visited the property with Yoko Ono in 1970.
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