The street has for a long time been a tourist destination and roadside attraction in its own right, and the street signs were constantly being stolen and carted away to the far reaches of the world.
There was a time that the theft of Penny Lane street signs was so prevalent that the city began painting the street name on the sides of buildings. It is much more difficult to steal a building than a sign. It is still falsely noted many places, that Penny Lane is named after James Penny. National Museums Liverpool and The International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, were contacted with a request for information about the connection between the street and James Penny but were not able to provide any evidence that a connection ever actually existed.
Several streets in Liverpool are named for slave traders, however, which fueled the idea that the Beatles song namesake could have been connected to James Penny. In , local counselor Barbara Mace called for all slavery-related street names in Liverpool to be changed. Like other byways named after people, Penny or his family either owned land in the area or had strong associations with it.
David Bedford, author of Liddypool: Birthplace of the Beatles and Liverpool resident, is quick to interject when the media discuss the possible link. Having done extensive research on the area and its famous former residents, he extolls the significance of Penny Lane. Everything comes back to Penny Lane. In the end, no streets were renamed; instead, plaques explaining the history of their names were installed.
The International Slavery Museum, however, did include Penny Lane in an exhibit of streets named after slave traders. That is, until last week, when interest in the street name boiled over once more, impelling to the museum to dig into its research. The results delighted Bedford — and no doubt Beatles fans the world over.
We are therefore extending our original review and setting up a participative project to renew our interactive display. In short, the Penny Lane street sign will no longer be a part of the display. Still, the newfound attention on Liverpool and its history has had a positive effect.
And we all want to be close to fame. What would have happened if she were on the bus? In response, Penny Lane runs off and nearly kills herself after taking too many quaaludes. I knew all the main groupies in the heyday of groupiedom.
None of them would have done that. There was always someone else coming to town. That really turned me off. No actual music-loving goddess-groupie would do such a thing. Des Barres is no stranger to misogyny. Looking back from the political moment of , her work can spark nauseous feelings about a teen adored by older men. I was always taken care of.
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