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    [QUOTE=NNR;322680]I'm assuming this is the house that John bought for Julia and her sister that never actually ended up with them...?

    The full story's in her excellent book "Imagine This" for those interested.

    Quote Originally Posted by Gerard Fleming View Post
    In October 2010 my friend Bill Harry >> Mersey Beat.. The Bill Harry Interview arranged for an exhibition of my John Lennon Liverpool related photographs to be shown during the John Lennon season that was held in Liverpool in remembrance of 2 special Lennon anniversarys in the same year, Johns 70th Birthday and the 30th anniversary of his death..

    Due to reasons beyond my control the exhibition was cancelled. the people who were supposed to show the exhibition still have around 100 of my photographs and say they will show the exhibition exclusively of my photographs some time in 2011...if it comes off, great...if it does'nt, no big deal.

    Meantime...I'll post a few Liverpool Beatles related photographs on here...


    Thanks...

    Gerard.



    I'm sorry about showing only a small shot of this house...
    I dont want to be the one responsible for this house being exposed to the world...

    This is the only house John Lennon owned in Liverpool..
    it is the last house Lennon slept in in Liverpool..with Yoko Ono...
    there is a story related to this house that would shock Beatles fans..it would shock the world...but its not for me to say on here....

    You can search the internet all day and you wont find a photograph of this house..
    You will not see this house on any Beatles tour..

    Hiya NNR...

    Can I help you with any of the above ?
    I'm sorry but I dont understand what you are asking..

    Thanks..


    Gerard.

    ---------- Post added at 03:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:39 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
    I owe you, Gerard, mate. And here is one of me that you took when you took Donna and myself to Quarry Bank in 2007. . . .



    Meanwhile, I was able to find out about the motto in the stained glass window. "Be just and fear not" is a quote from one of Shakespeare's lesser known plays, Henry VIII (my pic this time!):

    Be just, and fear not:
    Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s,
    Thy God’s, and truth’s; then if thou fall’st, . . .
    Thou fall’st a blessed martyr!




    Hiya Chris..


    Chris I'm sorry mate for missing this post, that was a pleasant surprise for you..
    was'nt it eh ?

    You was'nt expecting a tour of your old Quarry Bank school..was you ?

    It was my pleasure Chris mate, and I really enjoyed that day..


    and thanks Chris for the info on the stained glass window...
    I never knew that....

    Cheers mate... G...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gerard Fleming View Post

    Hiya Chris..


    Chris I'm sorry mate for missing this post, that was a pleasant surprise for you..
    was'nt it eh ?

    You was'nt expecting a tour of your old Quarry Bank school..was you ?

    It was my pleasure Chris mate, and I really enjoyed that day..


    and thanks Chris for the info on the stained glass window...
    I never knew that....

    Cheers mate... G...
    Thanks, Gerard. My pleasure, mate.

    Here's the whole of that photograph of the leadlight window on the landing at Quarry Bank.



    The mansion, Quarry Bank, was built in 1866-7 for timber merchant James Bland. You can see his cypher in the left hand window pane. It also might not be entirely coincidence that the quotation from Shakespeare begins with "B" -- and I am making the assumption that "Be just, and fear not" may have been Mr. Bland's family motto.

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    Thanks Chris for the info on Quarry Bank..
    its a beautiful building, isn't it ?

    a place I love wandering around... roll on the nice weather..!
    Woolton Woods here I come...
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    Quote Originally Posted by az_gila View Post
    That brings back memories too...

    IIRC Pobjoy's office was just on the left.... along with rumours of metal rings in the wall that used to hold chained slaves.

    I think that was a bad rumour - but it kept us students alert and not wanting a visit to the office...
    Thanks, Az. Glad to gather that you are a former Quarry boy. I was there from 1965 to 1967. When I visited Quarry with Gerard in May 2007 one of the staff pulled out a copy of my signature from a document from 1965. I signed my name then rather conservatively as "C. T. George." Indeed it was while in Mr. Warbrick's art class at Quarry that I had learned to write my present loopier "Christopher T. George" signature (see below). I experimented also with using my middle name, "C. Thompson George" before settling on the style I have used since my time at Quarry. I learned from one of the websites that Mr. Pobjoy, who as you noted was the Head while Lennon along with you and I, years later, were there, was a leading advocate for banning corporal punishment from Liverpool schools. I remember him fondly and learning that makes me even more fond of him.

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    I learned from one of the websites that Mr. Pobjoy, who as you noted was the Head while Lennon along with you and I, years later, were there, was a leading advocate for banning corporal punishment from Liverpool schools. I remember him fondly and learning that makes me even more fond of him.

    The kids all liked this... but it didn't always travel to the wood shop... the wood shop teacher (Mr Woods?) kept a 1/2 inch dowel on a cabinet and threatened us with it....
    We actually did get hit with any wood projects we made if they were incorrect...

    It worked so well, I even remember the name he gave it --- "Rufus"

    PS - 50+ years later I never lay a wood plane down on it's base, always on it's side...


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