A group of Liverpool residents is calling on the council to limit Beatles tourism, which is at the heart of the city’s growing visitor economy.
Dozens of companies offer tours by mini bus or taxi around where the Fab Four grew up, but residents who live in or near their former homes are sick of the hordes of camera-wielding tourists.
Kathleen Hughes who lives in George Harrison’s childhood home at 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree told the Telegraph she wants the council to at least confine visitors to daylight hours.
She told the paper that hundreds of tourists visit the house at all hours, even as late at 2am, and some try to walk inside even though it’s a private residence.
Residents living close to Paul McCartney’s former home at 20 Forthlin Road in the Allerton area of Liverpool have also complained about the volume of visitors, even though that property was acquired by the National Trust in 1995.
Liverpool City Council said it was aware of the complaints and was trying to find a way to address the concerns of the residents and still enable tourists to satisfy their interest in The Beatles.
