Editing 20 Forthlin Road (section)

== History ==
The house was built in 1949<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1405225|title=20 Forthlin Road, non Civil Parish – 1405225 &#124; Historic England}}</ref> and owned by the [[local authority]], and the McCartney family moved into it in 1955 when Paul was at secondary school.

In 1965, Paul bought his father Jim a house in [[Heswall]], a wealthy part of the [[Wirral Peninsula|Wirral]].<ref name="indiana">{{cite web|url=http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/rock/homes.html|title=Liverpool: Beatle Homes|date=13 June 2008|work=[[Jacobs School of Music]]|publisher=[[Indiana University]]|access-date=23 February 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100210182833/http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/rock/homes.html| archive-date= 10 February 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="InfoBritain">{{cite web|url=http://www.infobritain.co.uk/Paul_McCartney_Forthlin_Road.htm|title=20 Forthlin Road|date=3 September 2009|work=InfoBritain|access-date=23 February 2010|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034755/http://www.infobritain.co.uk/Paul_McCartney_Forthlin_Road.htm|archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref>

The house has been in the ownership of the [[National Trust]] since 1995.<ref name="NT">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-20forthlinroadallerton/|title=20 Forthlin Road|year=2010|publisher=[[National Trust]]|access-date=23 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100313054915/http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-20forthlinroadallerton/|archive-date=13 March 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Trust markets the house as "the birthplace of the Beatles", since this is the place where the Beatles composed and rehearsed their earliest songs.

Unlike Lennon's childhood home [[251 Menlove Avenue|Mendips]], 20 Forthlin Road does not have an [[English Heritage]] [[blue plaque]] and is currently ineligible to receive one. English Heritage issue a plaque once the figure has "been dead for 20 years, or has passed the centenary of their birth".<ref name="blueplaque">{{cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1498|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20050311023516/http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1498|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 March 2005|title=Selection Criteria|year=2010|work=Blue Plaques|publisher=[[English Heritage]]|access-date=23 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/content/imported-docs/p-t/blue-plaques-selection-criteria.pdf|title=Selection Criteria for Blue Plaques|publisher=[[English Heritage]]|access-date=20 December 2013}}</ref>

In February 2012, both this house and Lennon's childhood home at [[251 Menlove Avenue]] were [[Grade II listed]] by [[Historic England]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-17210335 BBC News, 29 February 2012: ''Lennon and McCartney homes given Grade II listed status''] Linked 2015-06-18</ref>

The home was featured in an edition of [[Carpool Karaoke]], which aired on 22 June 2018, episode of ''[[The Late Late Show with James Corden]]''.<ref>{{Citation|last=The Late Late Show with James Corden|title=Paul McCartney Carpool Karaoke|date=2018-06-21|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjvzCTqkBDQ| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/QjvzCTqkBDQ| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|access-date=2018-06-22}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Corden visited there with Paul McCartney, who said it was his first visit to the home since he moved away in his late teens.