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'Don't bother rebuilding my house brick by brick so you can still say I was born there'

Oct 10 2005

By Nick Coligan, Liverpool Echo

 

Ringo Starr

RINGO Starr has a message for campaigners fighting to save his old home from the bulldozers: "Don't bother."

The Beatles drummer says he "does not see the sense" in preserving his former home in Liverpool's Welsh Streets.

Ringo was born in a terraced house in Madryn Street, Toxteth, which is in the middle of a demolition zone.

Liverpool council plans to take down the property brick by brick to keep it for future generations.

Ringo Starr's old home on Madryn Street

But Ringo has dismissed the idea. He said in a TV interview: "Now they are knocking it down brick by brick because they are going to build flats there or high-rise or something, I don't know.

"They are going to put it somewhere else and I do not see the sense of putting it anywhere else, because you are going to have to put a plaque on whatever they build saying 'Ringo Starr was born here'. Well, not really."

Ringo then said he had never thought about buying the Madryn Street house.

He added: "Actually, Admiral Grove was the house I grew up in. I was in that house [Madryn Street] for four years, but it is the one that everyone likes."

 
 

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