Showing posts with label Houses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houses. Show all posts

30.5.15

“Mick (Jagger) & Marianne (Faithfull) were here” - inscribed on 
George & Pattie’s house ‘Kinfauns’ (mid 1960s)

8.7.14

1965, John & Cyn photographed in their garden by Henry Grossman Robert Whitaker.
1965, Cynthia photographed by Henry Grossman Robert Whitaker in the gardens of Kenwood.

31.5.14

1966, Ringo & Mo's new home, Sunny Heights !

20.1.13

Spring 1965, John & Cyn posing in their garden at Kenwood. 
I feel like I keep posting these but they're much larger and the quality's a lot better too. 

2.3.11

KINFAUNS, Surrey
The Harrisons

Kinfauns was a bungalow-style house, located at 16 Claremont Drive, Esher, Surrey, England, KT10 9LU, on the Claremont Estate. From 1964 to 1970 it was home of George Harrison & Pattie Boyd, his girlfriend and then in 1966, his wife, and was where many of the demo recordings for the White Album were made. The house has since been demolished, and a new one built in its place. Harrison bought Kinfauns for £20,000 on 17 July 1964, on the advice of Dr. Walter Strach, the Beatles' accountant. Going house-shopping, he said later, "It was the first one I saw, and I thought, that'll do." He was joined there months later by wife-to-be Pattie Boyd. Harrison and Boyd were married on 21 January 1966, and lived in the house until 1970, when Harrison purchased Friar Park, a manor. During 1967, Harrison and Boyd painted the outside of the house in psychedelic patterns; a mural around the fireplace was created by design collective The Fool, who also painted several Beatles musical instruments and Harrison's Mini. Aside from Paul McCartney's house at 7 Cavendish Avenue in St. John's Wood, Kinfauns was probably the home the Beatles gathered at most, as it was only a short drive from the homes of John Lennon (Kenwood) and Ringo Starr (Sunny Heights). It was where Harrison, Lennon and their wives retreated during their first LSD experience in 1965, and in May 1968 it was where many of the demo recordings for the White Album were made, on Harrison's Ampex four-track reel-to-reel tape recorder. (These demos have been released on various bootleg albums; seven of them also appear on The Beatles Anthology, Vol. 3.) Harrison was the first Beatle to own or use a Moog Synthesizer, and he recorded "Under The Mersey Wall" with his Moog at Kinfauns; the track became one side of his Electronic Sound album, released in May 1969. Kinfauns was where police arrested Boyd and Harrison in 1969, for hashish possession, as Lennon and Yoko Ono had been months earlier while staying at Ringo Starr's Montagu Square apartment. (Both couples insisted the drugs found had been planted on the premises. After moving to Friar Park, Harrison sold Kinfauns; both houses were listed as assets of the Beatles' company Apple Corps. The site of Kinfauns lies within the historic garden walls of the adjacent Claremont Fan Court House, a 19th Century royal residence. Following a series of planning applications in the early 21st Century the bungalow was substantially demolished and replaced with a new two storey house.

Photos from CiaoVogue.com, Something About Pattie Boyd Yahoo ! Group, my scans & BeatlePhotoBlog.
Text from Wikipedia.

23.1.11

 Fan photos of Roundhill, home to the Starkeys for some years. Sara aka Starshyne posted this on her fabulous blog, Meet The Beatles For Real Blogspot ! So amazing, because we don't have that many photos of Roundhill. Thanks a lot Sara :D

9.1.11

SUNNY HEIGHTS, Surrey
The Starkeys

Sunny Heights, located on St George's Hill estate in Weybridge, Surrey, England, was the mid-1960s home of Ringo Starr, drummer of The Beatles. Starr purchased his home on July 24, 1965 after bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison had bought houses (Kenwood & Kinfauns, respectively). Sunny Heights, along with its large house and grounds, boasted its own bar, The Flying Cow, where Starr played host. The previous owner had been Mr. H.E.Pope, who changed the name of the house from Haleakala to Sunny Heights II when he bought it in 1948; the name came from the house in Amberley that the Pope family had evacuated to during the Second World War. Manager Brian Epstein had hoped each Beatle would buy adjacent properties, with a central one for himself, but it did not happen. While Starr and Lennon (who purchased Kenwood, a mock-Tudor house nearby) did buy places close to each other on the same estate, and it comforted each to know the other could be found close by & they visited each other often : they had sons close in age (Zak & Julian), Ringo & John loved to watch movies together and play, while Maureen & Cynthia played with their sons, took walks around the block, chatted and had tea, Harrison broke herd by getting a house (Kinfauns) on another nearby estate in Esher, while Paul McCartney bided his time, and bought a house on Cavendish Avenue in St. John's Wood, a short walk from EMI's Abbey Road recording studios. Maureen Cox married Starr in 1965, joining him at Sunny Heights and giving birth to their three children (Zak, Jason and Lee Starkey). While this was their primary residence, Starr also kept a London apartment in Montagu Square, which was often lent out to guests. As the Beatles began to break up, Lennon sold Kenwood, purchasing Tittenhurst Park in 1969, while Harrison bought Friar Park early in 1970. Ringo in 1968 purchased Brookfield, in Elstead, from actor Peter Sellers. When Lennon (with second wife Yoko Ono) moved to New York City in 1971, Starr bought Tittenhurst Park, moving in with his family, who lived there until 1988.

Photos from the Kenwood blog, Tribute to Maureen Starr Yahoo ! Group, my scan & several other places around the Internet. Many many thanks.

29.12.10

Lots of new pages are up...some in construction ! Keep an eye on them :)