Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Beatles - Campaigners Slam Ruling On Starr's Home

Beatles - Campaigners Slam Ruling On Starr's Home

Beatles - Campaigners Slam Ruling On Starr's Home

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:12 AM PST

Caption: Starr's home facing demolition {Beatles (Picture)} fans are fuming over plans to demolish the house in Liverpool, England where {RINGO STARR} was born. The drummer was welcomed into the world on 7 July 1940 in a house on Madryn Street in the band's famous hometown. The property first came under threat in 2005, when Starr himself spoke out against....

BEATLES fans have blasted a decision by English Heritage bosses not to save RINGO STARR's birthplace from demolition - branding the ruling "a joke".

Earlier this month (Dec10), a preservation order was placed on the famous pedestrian crossing in London featured on the cover of the Fab Four's 1969 album Abbey Road.

The decision was taken after English Heritage bosses advised the British government to save the crossing - but it later emerged they had also decided drummer Starr's birthplace in Liverpool is not worth preserving.

The property - at 9 Madryn Street - is under threat of demolition, and now campaigners are urging officials to step in and save it before the bulldozers move in.

A spokesman for Save Britain's Heritage tells architecture website BDOnline, "How is it possible to argue that (the) birthplace of Ringo Starr is less important than the Abbey Road crossing? Madryn Street, which Ringo frequently refers to in his own writings and lyrics, draws in thousands of visitors from across the globe.

"It is in an area desperately trying to cling on to its historic identity in the face enforced blight and threatened destruction. The house and neighbourhood embody the romance of the Beatles story."

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