00:00Artifacts are with a Fab Four connection from Quarry Bank High School are on display for the first time ever at the Liverpool Beatles Museum.
00:08The school's decided to put Calderstones on the Beatles tourist trail and now some of the items are on loan to the Matthew Street Museum.
00:16We're really excited about it and I think Beatle fans are gonna, I think it's gonna pop their heads.
00:22It's a lovely, lovely addition to the museum. So a big thanks to Tom.
00:28School teacher Tom Barry discovered John's head teacher had hoarded items from the school following Lennon's success with the Beatles and that there was a locked room leading to an attic where the items were stored.
00:42Tom was given access to this and it was crammed with school items.
00:47I think particularly with John's education, we hear a lot about John's time at school and how he was a bully this, detentions this and getting the cane this and we don't really hear it for any of the other Beatles.
01:00So I think there's definitely an interest there that people have in John specifically at school.
01:06So yeah, that's why these items are good and it's just in good company really.
01:10So far Tom has only managed to search around 10% of the attic so many more interesting finds are likely.
01:17I have got a trip booked to Calderstones to check the attic out. Tom doesn't know that yet, but I have.
01:26I think people are constantly trying to grasp the concept of the impact of the Beatles.
01:30Well, that's my take on it anyway. So I think the fact that, you know, you always hear these sayings, don't you know, the world was in black and white and the Beatles came along and it was colour.
01:40And I don't think any of us can really comprehend it.
01:42So my interpretation is that all of us are just trying to grasp any sort of understanding that we can.
01:48And these early days really tell the story. They're the foundation, aren't they?
01:52Tom's also taking fans on the John Lennon School Tour, which takes visitors through Calderstones in Liverpool, formerly Corrie Bank, where Lennon studied between 1952 and 1957.
02:03Fans can step into the classrooms he learned in the room where he formed the quarrymen and even stand on the assembly stage where he first performed with the group.
02:12It's just given people a chance to be able to come into the school, see the places where John frequented them daily and hear stories that they've not heard before.
02:20Some of them they will have heard, some of them you won't. And then, yeah, just be able to see, see some, just something that no one's ever been able to see before.
02:27You know, the gates to the school have been closed for 70 odd years.
02:30So it's good that they're finally being opened and real diehard Beatles fans, Lennon fans can experience a part of his life that they've not had the chance to before.
02:39Items on display include the original school sign, John Lennon's school desk, the admissions register, original sheet music of the school song, as well as a magazine containing drawings and a poem from John and school ties and uniforms from Corrie Bank 2.
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