Penny Lane street sign back in Liverpool 47 years after drunken theft

Liverpool city region mayor, Steve Rotheram, holds the sign, which he says is back in its ‘rightful home’. It is now on display in the Beatles Story museum. Photograph: Kevin Matthews/PA

A Penny Lane street sign stolen by drunk students has been returned to Liverpool, 47 years after the theft.

The sign of the Mossley Hill suburb was taken in 1976, nine years after the road was made famous when the Beatles’ single Penny Lane was released as a double A-side single with Strawberry Fields Forever.