{"id":780230,"date":"2026-09-23T18:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780230\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:44:10","slug":"key-to-paul-mccartneys-childhood-home-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780230\/","title":{"rendered":"Key to Paul McCartney&#8217;s childhood home up for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;remarkable piece of Beatles history&#8221; will go under the hammer next month at a Gloucestershire auction house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Paul McCartney lived with his family at 20 Forthlin Road, Allerton, Liverpool, for eight years until 1963, where he composed some of The Beatles&#8217; earliest songs with bandmate John Lennon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After McCartney and, later, his brother and father moved out, a front door key and a photograph of the house was enclosed in a letter to American fan Kathy Salt from then-occupant Ashley Jones, in 1965.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three items will be auctioned together by South Cerney auctioneers Dominic Winter on 7 October, and are expected to fetch between \u00a32,000-\u00a33,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;remarkable piece of Beatles history&#8221; will go under the hammer next month at a Gloucestershire auction house.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780230","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\/780230","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=780230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}