A South African woman who was sent to Liverpool to open the gates of an iconic landmark has told the ECHO how she fell in love with the city during a "rare heatwave".
Kathy Versfeld is in her 50s and is mission director at Strawberry Field, the Woolton site that was the subject of The Beatles' hit and a childhood haunt of John Lennon. She came to Liverpool with The Salvation Army to open the site to the public for the first time and has been here ever since.
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