Post by nowheregirl on Jun 19, 2007 20:51:43 GMT 1
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Art teacher Geraldine Brock didn't get much work out of a tall teenager with glasses.
He was polite but not interested. His studies of flowers and foliage were usually incomplete because he left the class early.
She said: "They were OK, but unfinished and he left them and I used to bin them. I wish now I had kept them because they would have made me a lot of money."
For that 17-year-old was John Lennon.
And Liverpool Art College, where he was a first year student, stood next door to Liverpool Institute where fellow Beatle-to-be Paul McCartney was a pupil.
Together the pair formed the group which made them icons of popular music.
Geraldine, now 69, of College Road, Epsom, was a former Liverpool Art College student who returned there briefly to teach before becoming a successful textile designer.
She said: "John was a nice enough lad, but never finished whatever was set for each session. He always found an excuse to go early and it often seemed to be when there was a sound of a guitar coming over from the Institute.
"Later I realised that he would have been going off to practice with Paul.
"I used to go to The Cavern Club myself when it was a jazz club and I went to hear Chris Barber and Humphrey Lyttleton."
Anything associated with the Beatles can now yield thousands,with Lennon memorabilia fetching the biggest prices since his assassination in 1980.
Geraldine said: "I don't even want to think how much those drawings would have been worth. Teaching John Lennon plant drawing has been my biggest claim to fame."
Art teacher Geraldine Brock didn't get much work out of a tall teenager with glasses.
He was polite but not interested. His studies of flowers and foliage were usually incomplete because he left the class early.
She said: "They were OK, but unfinished and he left them and I used to bin them. I wish now I had kept them because they would have made me a lot of money."
For that 17-year-old was John Lennon.
And Liverpool Art College, where he was a first year student, stood next door to Liverpool Institute where fellow Beatle-to-be Paul McCartney was a pupil.
Together the pair formed the group which made them icons of popular music.
Geraldine, now 69, of College Road, Epsom, was a former Liverpool Art College student who returned there briefly to teach before becoming a successful textile designer.
She said: "John was a nice enough lad, but never finished whatever was set for each session. He always found an excuse to go early and it often seemed to be when there was a sound of a guitar coming over from the Institute.
"Later I realised that he would have been going off to practice with Paul.
"I used to go to The Cavern Club myself when it was a jazz club and I went to hear Chris Barber and Humphrey Lyttleton."
Anything associated with the Beatles can now yield thousands,with Lennon memorabilia fetching the biggest prices since his assassination in 1980.
Geraldine said: "I don't even want to think how much those drawings would have been worth. Teaching John Lennon plant drawing has been my biggest claim to fame."