{"id":795254,"date":"2026-10-07T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795254\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:02:12","slug":"paul-mccartneys-childhood-item-sells-for-double-the-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795254\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney&#8217;s childhood item sells for double the estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A key to Sir Paul McCartney&#8217;s childhood home has sold for thousands of pounds at auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the 1950s and 60s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwly57e8p60zo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Paul lived with his family at 20 Forthlin Road<\/a> in Allerton, Liverpool, and composed some of the earliest Beatles&#8217; tracks with John Lennon in the council house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two years after Sir Paul, his father, and brother moved out in 1963, American superfan Kathy Salt wrote to then-occupant Ashley Jones, who enclosed a photograph of the house and a key, with a tag attached, in his letter back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three items were up for sale at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in the Cotswolds on Wednesday and fetched a hammer price of \u00a35,000, double the estimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A key to Sir Paul McCartney&#8217;s childhood home has sold for thousands of pounds at auction. During the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795254","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\/795254","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=795254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}