A bank that helped inspire The Beatles’ classic Penny Lane is closing down. The branch is one of scores across the UK being axed by the TSB with the loss of hundreds of jobs.
The landmark sits on a corner yards from Liverpool’s iconic Penny Lane. In the second verse of the 1967 song, Sir Paul McCartney sings: “On the corner is a banker with a motorcar, and little children laugh at him behind his back, and the banker never wears a Mac in the pouring rain, very strange.” Nearby spots also mentioned are a tram stop, barber’s and fire station, all popular sites with tourists.
The song features on the seminal album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. In the 1997 biography Many Years from Now, by Barry Miles, Sir Paul said of the lyrics: “It
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