Do you remember that Beatles song with the line "Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name, nobody came"?
This was certainly not one of the Beatles more happier songs, and a bit out of keeping with what we had come to expect at that time.
Well now, the song was real enough, but I have often wondered if there was a real Eleanor Rigby, or not.
Well as luck would have it, I was recently performing some songs in Liverpool and so during my free time I decided to look into this and see what I could find out about Eleanor Rigby.
So, I popped along to the local library, did a little bit of research, and then headed for the part of Liverpool known as Woolton.
A visit to the local church will take you through the church graveyard, and there one of the tombstones or headstones caught my eye.
Yes, you guessed it, the tombstone had the inscription Eleanor Rigby.
Now this discovery heightened my interest in my research. Could it be possible that one or more of the Beatles might have lived nearby? The answer is yes. As a child John Lennon lived in Menlove Avenue, a stones throw from the church.
So I reflected for a moment about when I was a young boy. Odd as it might seem, one of the things that I and my friends used to do is to play games in our local churchyard, untill we were chased away.
Therefore it is not unreasonable to assume that John Lennon also probably often went into this churchyard, and would have seen the headstone dedicated to Eleanor Rigby.
Time however became my enemy here because I had to move on from Liverpool before being able to search any deeper into this.
I want to spend some time going through the church records, and I would like to see what I can find out about the other people mentioned on Eleanor,s headstone.
If you would like to hear from me again when I have found out some new information on this then please click on the link at the bottom of the page. This will take you to a seperate page and you will find my email address near the bottom. Just send me a brief email asking to be kept updated and I will do so whenever I find new items of interest. - 16463
This was certainly not one of the Beatles more happier songs, and a bit out of keeping with what we had come to expect at that time.
Well now, the song was real enough, but I have often wondered if there was a real Eleanor Rigby, or not.
Well as luck would have it, I was recently performing some songs in Liverpool and so during my free time I decided to look into this and see what I could find out about Eleanor Rigby.
So, I popped along to the local library, did a little bit of research, and then headed for the part of Liverpool known as Woolton.
A visit to the local church will take you through the church graveyard, and there one of the tombstones or headstones caught my eye.
Yes, you guessed it, the tombstone had the inscription Eleanor Rigby.
Now this discovery heightened my interest in my research. Could it be possible that one or more of the Beatles might have lived nearby? The answer is yes. As a child John Lennon lived in Menlove Avenue, a stones throw from the church.
So I reflected for a moment about when I was a young boy. Odd as it might seem, one of the things that I and my friends used to do is to play games in our local churchyard, untill we were chased away.
Therefore it is not unreasonable to assume that John Lennon also probably often went into this churchyard, and would have seen the headstone dedicated to Eleanor Rigby.
Time however became my enemy here because I had to move on from Liverpool before being able to search any deeper into this.
I want to spend some time going through the church records, and I would like to see what I can find out about the other people mentioned on Eleanor,s headstone.
If you would like to hear from me again when I have found out some new information on this then please click on the link at the bottom of the page. This will take you to a seperate page and you will find my email address near the bottom. Just send me a brief email asking to be kept updated and I will do so whenever I find new items of interest. - 16463
