Ruislip & Eastcote & Northwood Gazette
A BEATLES BOLTHOLE
Amews house where the Beatles hung out briefly during the late 1960s while they were writing and recording the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album is for sale.
25 Hays Mews in London’s Mayfair district is a one-bedroom property and, the current owner claims, where the group gathered occasionally to write and socialise while recording the album at Abbey
Road studios in 1967.
Privacy was a major concern for the group and their manager Brian Epstein, who lived around the corner in Belgravia, is claimed to have used the property as an anonymous bolthole for the Fab Four to relax in between recording sessions.
During their stay John Lennon scrawled some lyrics for the album on the kitchen tiles which, sadly, are no longer there after being peeled off and sold at a Sotheby’s auction several years ago.
The Mews house is the former servants’ quarters of a much larger property nearby, a fourbedroom Grade-II listed Georgian mansion that was later bought by Norman St JohnStevas, the leader of the House of Commons during Margaret Thatcher’s time as Prime Minister.
The two properties, which come as a package, are available for sale at £9m. More details from Pastor Real Estate, 020 3867 7796.