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Solo forums => John Lennon => Topic started by: I am the Paulrus on December 16, 2005, 10:21:47 AM

Title: Lennon's school drawings to fetch up to
Post by: I am the Paulrus on December 16, 2005, 10:21:47 AM

Nov 15 2005

John Vincent reports on a teacher's family ready to sell early work by one of his most famous pupils

Daily Post

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/...-name_page.html

JOHN LENNON may have left school without a single O-Level - but his drawings left a lasting impression on English teacher and housemaster Lancelot Burrows.

He kept 12-year-old Lennon's exercise book to show future generations of pupils at Liverpool's Quarry Bank High School.

Now the family of the late Mr Burrows is to cash in on the world's most expensive schoolbook - by selling it at a manuscripts auction next month.

The book in which Lennon poured out his artistic talent - and laid the foundations for one of the Beatles's most famous hits - is set to fetch up to

Title: Re: Lennon's school drawings to fetch up to
Post by: raxo on December 17, 2005, 01:46:29 AM

Thanks for sharing this very interesting reading, I Am The Paulrus.
Nice drawings.