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Years later, Yoko Ono bought the house and donated it to the National Trust. It has been preserved exactly as it was when Lennon was growing up.
Mimi was a notoriously strict guardian, with very rigid ideas about proper behaviour and a powerful sense of moral and social superiority.
She did not regard music as a suitable or respectable pursuit and looked down on Lennon s Beatles bandmates as being from a lower class area of Liverpool.
Mimi famously told Lennon, The guitar s all right John, but you ll never make a living out of it .
John Lennon s aunt did not approve of the Beatles (Image: GETTY)