Tag: Penny Lane

The Windy History of Penny Lane: The Beatles, the Slave Trade and a Now-Resolved Controversy

June 22, 2020 Richard Porter 0 Comments

The signs for Liverpool’s Penny Lane are often decorated with graffiti: names, dates, well wishes to the Beatles who immortalized the street in their 1967 hit. This month, though, the scrawlings changed:

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Penny Lane: ‘No link’ between Liverpool street and slaver, museum finds

June 20, 2020 Richard Porter 0 Comments

Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum has concluded that there is “no link” between Penny Lane and slave owner James Penny. Last week, signs on the road made famous by The Beatles song of the same name were vandalised

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