How John Winston Lennnon Inspired Churchill
JOHN Lennon would have been 70 next month, a fact that has not escaped the Mirror’s Brian Reade, who notices that The Beatles’ front man’s middle name was Winston. Reade offers up this gem:
“It may surprise you to learn he was christened Winston because he was born during the Blitz…”
Factual and surprising stuff from the Mirror’s in-house Liverpudlian.
In other news, Winston Churchill only starting using the name Winston after Lennon’s birth, Before that he preferred his own middle name Leonard. Winston Churchill was not born in Liverpoool….
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Embargoed to 0001 Monday July 20 A letter revealing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's anger on discovering that his wartime bunker was not bomb-proof, which will go on display for the first time as part of a new display marking the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II, at the Churchill museum and Cabinet War Rooms, Westminster, London.
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