No 12 Arnold Grove looks like an ordinary red-brick terrace house in the Liverpool suburb of Wavertree, recognisable only to those with a deep appreciation for the city’s most famous sons.
But now a blue plaque will mark the house as the former home of the “quiet” Beatle, George Harrison.
The plaque at the guitarist’s birthplace was described as “a source of family pride” by Olivia Harrison, the widow of the guitarist, who died of cancer in 2001 aged 58.
On Friday she, along with the culture minister Stephen Parkinson, will unveil the tribute on the two-up two-down Victorian house where Harrison lived from his birth in 1943 until he was nearly seven.
In his memoir, I, Me, Mine, Harrison described the house as “OK”, recalling it was “just like Coronation Street” with “no garden” and a “door straight on to the street”.
He said: “It was OK that house, very pleasant being little and it was always sunny in summer.”
Olivia, an American film producer and author, said: “This blue plaque recognition of George’s birthplace is a source of family pride for all the Harrisons, and something that none of us, mainly George, would ever have anticipated.
“So much of who George was came from being born and spending his earliest years at 12 Arnold Grove, undeniably a part of who George was.
“He left a footprint on this world, on this country, in this city and on this street.”
