Beatles super fan adds Ringo Starr's childhood home to her growing collection

Lifelong Fab Four obsessive Jackie Holmes, 48, bought Ringo’s boyhood terrace during an auction at Liverpool’s legendary Cavern Club. With a guide price of £55,000, Ms Holmes eventually saw the hammer go down with her final bid of £70,000 accepted on Thursday. Last night she revealed it will join her Beatles collection, having already bought George Harrison’s childhood home for £156,000 in 2014 and John Lennon’s mother’s house for £155,000 last year.

Her latest buy, the white and pink two-bed Victorian terrace house at 10 Admiral Grove, Toxteth, was Ringo’s home from age three to 23. It’s lovely to own another piece of Beatles history Jackie Holmes Ms Holmes said she was delighted to own another piece of Beatles’ history. She said: “I am absolutely made up. The Beatles and their music have been a huge part of my life. It’s lovely to own another piece of Beatles history. “Now I’m just hoping to find a Beatles fan to rent it to who will love and appreciate it.”

The house was known to be a regular haunt for the Beatles in their younger days and other well-known faces on the Merseybeat scene including the late Cilla Black. Ringo crammed 80 people into the cosy home for his 21st birthday and got married from there in 1963. The Empress pub at the end of his road appeared on the front of his first solo album, Sentimental Journey.

By: Chris Riches

Source: The Express

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