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Walton Hospital. 

 

 

Walton Hospital, Rice Lane 

                                                                  

Birthplace of Paul McCartney.

 

Walton hospital began life as a workhouse infirmary at Walton Workhouse which opened in April 1868. It grew to become one of England's largest Poor Law hospitals.

 

The site is now a large housing estate

 

 

 

 

 

 

James Paul McCartney, was born June 1942 at Walton Hospital where his mother had worked as a nurse. Walton Hospital is in the northern part of Liverpool not far from Paul's teen-age home at 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool.

 McCartney first rose to fame as the bassist, pianist, guitarist, singer and songwriter for  The Beatles.

He wrote many songs with John Lennon, though (excepting some of their early songs) they rarely wrote a song together; "Yesterday" was confirmed as world's most popular song with 6,000,000 airplays in the USA.

Paul McCartney, currently 62, says he hopes to keep playing even after he is 64, a reference to the Beatles song, "When I'm Sixty-Four".

 

 

Biographic details click::  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney

                                           http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Paul_McCartney

 

 

 

E-mail address   john-kerrigan@blueyonder.co.uk

 

Map of Walton Hospital- Rice Lane    maps.uk.ask. Rice Lane

 

Updated :   8th December  2007

 

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