National Trust members who now have the chance to visit the childhood homes of both John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney may be interested to hear the admission from the musical knight that he has yet to pay a return visit to the house in Forthlin Road and indeed was a little worried as to what memories may come back when he eventually goes there.
Talking to Radio 4's The Food Programme, he was asked why he has not been back. "I don't know why - I don't know whether I will be a little worried that it'll be too nostalgic or whether there will be a sadness about it that I don't associate with it at the moment. But I think I will one of these days."The home was bought by the National Trust and fans can make a pilgrimage to the terraced house along with the Mendips home of John Lennon. In the interview, Sir Paul discussed his memories of food while growing up in the house, which was acquired for the nation in 1995. His appearance on the programme ties in with his connection with vegetarianism since the 1970's.
He remembered being horrified when his mother prepared tongue for the family. "I remember vividly tongue arriving and she was trying to vary our diet and it was 'no way am I going to touch that' - because it was a tongue," Sir Paul told presenter Sheila Dillon. He pointed out there had been no effort to disguise the dish. His mother Mary died when he was 14 and he said the food was less memorable when he, his father Jim and brother Mike were living in the house without her.
Sir Paul said the food was "only good when my aunties came round and they would cook a proper meal".
Showing the very best of marketing skills, the National Trust arranges combined visits by minibus tour to Mendips, the childhood home of John Lennon and 20 Forthlin Road, the former home of the McCartney family.
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