{"id":47790,"date":"2025-08-06T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47790\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:34:08","slug":"john-lennons-school-doodles-unearthed-for-new-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47790\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon&#8217;s school doodles unearthed for new tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The books John Lennon doodled in while at school are a part of tour giving fans a rare glimpse into the Beatle&#8217;s early years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The John Lennon School Tour takes fans through the corridors of Calderstones School, Liverpool, which was formerly Quarry Bank High School, where the star attended between 1952 and 1957.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People are given the chance to see the halls, classrooms, and the assembly stage where Lennon first performed with The Quarry Men, a band which laid the foundations for what would become The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tour&#8217;s founder, teacher Tom Barry, told BBC Radio Merseyside people will get to see Lennon&#8217;s school books and his original desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The books John Lennon doodled in while at school are a part of tour giving fans a rare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-47790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}