They wanted me to go into the basement, but I wouldn't. She later reappeared when she became pregnant for the second time. John Lennon didnt have the easiest of childhoods growing up. "[19], Mimi and Smith were finally married on 15 September 1939. [22] Mimi also took her charge to a garden party in Calderstones Park every year, where a Salvation Army band played. They'd go off together, just leaving me a bar of chocolate and a note saying: 'Have a happy day. Nevertheless, he proved her wrong but did he visit her before his death? [13] Mimi immediately went to the hospital, despite there being an air raid, and was forced to hide in doorways to avoid the shrapnel. Tell him to come off the stage! "[7], On 15 September 1939 she finally married George. Lennon later placated Mimi slightly by greatly exaggerating the sum of how much money he would earn in Hamburg.[36]. Despite later losing touch with other family members, he kept in close contact with Mimi and telephoned her every week until his death in 1980. From a 1983 interviewI was kind of shocked to read both comments: "I have to admit Yoko was a good wife and mother and, thank goodness, I told John so long beforeYoko is a sensible girl." John Lennon was raised mainly by his Aunt Mimi, his mothers sister who lived in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. The current line-up of the Lennon Sisters is a trio consisting of Kathy, Janet and Mimi. David said, after meeting his aunt Mimi: She [Yoko] wasnt exactly her favourite person, because she still had a soft spot for Cynthia Mimi collapsed on the toilet, so Varcoe helped her to the bed, where Mimi started Cheyne-Stoking. Despite the animosity between Cynthia and Smith, Varcoe remembered Cynthia crying throughout the whole funeral, and said that Smith had always spoken positively about her. He moved his family to the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, where they lived in a small terraced house at 9 Newcastle Road, which is close to Penny Lane. [30] On many occasions when she criticised John, he would respond with a joke and the two of them would be "rolling around, laughing together". [22] A parachute-borne landmine fell outside the hospital, and Mimi later said "My sister [Julia] stayed in bed, and they put the baby [Lennon] under the bed. Right before John Lennons murder, he was very excited to return to the UK! Bargain Price (Paperback). A house in a millionaires' seaside resort where John Lennon bought a home for the beloved aunt who raised him as her own son has been put on the market for 4.5 million. He called her to say he was homesick and was planning a trip back to England. According to Beatles biographer Bob Spitz, Mimi assumed a matriarchal role in the Stanley house to help her mother, and dressed "as if she was on her way to a weekly garden club meeting". In bed. She constantly criticised Lennon about his relationships, and even criticised Cynthia for divorcing Lennon and allowing him to start a relationship with Yoko Ono. Mary Elizabeth "Mimi" Smith (ne Stanley) (24 April 1906 6 December 1991) is best known as the maternal aunt and parental guardian of the English musician John Lennon. [49] Cynthia remembered Mendips as cold and draughty (it had no central heating system) with only old electric fires in the downstairs rooms. [50] Mimi once asked Parkes to take her to The Cavern to see John and the Beatles play, but when she descended into the damp, dark cellar; full of screaming teenagers, she shouted to Parkes, "Get him [Lennon] out, get him out! John Lennon was raised mainly by his Aunt Mimi, his mothers sister who lived in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. [25], Smith's husband George died of a liver haemorrhage in June 1955[34] leaving 2,000 in his will (equivalent to 52,900 in 2021). [68] The whereabouts of her ashes is unknown. Smith's father, George Ernest Stanley, was born in the Everton district of Liverpool in 1874 to William Henry Stanley and Eliza Jane Gildea. According to Varcoe, Mimi's last words were, "Hello, John". Mimi's mother, Annie Jane Millward, was born in Chester around 1875, to Welsh parents. Smith died in 1955, when he was 15. ISBN 0-7493-8658-4. . She was the oldest of five daughters. [29], Although Mimi later claimed that she had bought Lennon's first guitar, it was actually Julia, after John had pestered his mother incessantly for weeks. As long as he keeps away from music, he will be all right". [54], On 14 March 1969, while Lennon and Yoko Ono were visiting Mimi in Poole, Lennon asked his chauffeur, Les Anthony, to drive to Southampton and enquire if it would be possible to get married at sea. [6], When other girls were thinking of marriage, Mimi talked of challenges and adventures that arose from her attitude of stubborn independence. Despite losing touch with several family members, he kept in close contact with her and telephoned her every week. [15] Mimi later confided to a relative that although she had never wanted children, she had "always wanted John". This tag must not be removed until the rewrite is done doing so is a (possibly criminal) violation of Wikipedia's copyright. [60] After the Lennons had been living at Brian Epstein's flat for a few months (and after hearing about Cynthia's near-miscarriage), Mimi offered to rent her downstairs back room to them. They'd go off together, just leaving me a bar of chocolate and a note saying, 'Have a happy day'". Born John Winston Lennon in Liverpool, England. [56] In summer 1962, Cynthia discovered that she was pregnant with Lennon's child,[57] so he proposed marriage. [12] Mimi phoned the Oxford Street Maternity Hospital that evening and was told that Julia had given birth to a boy. ISBN 10-00609-860. . [49] John and Paul often met at Mendips to write songs, and rehearsed in the glass-panelled porch at the front of the house, which was the only place where they were allowed to play. [19] On many occasions when she criticised Lennon, he would respond with a joke, and the two of them would be "rolling around, laughing together". [10][11][12], George and Annie had five daughters: Mary Elizabeth, known as 'Mimi' (19061991), born on 24 April 1906, several months before her parents married;[13] Elizabeth Jane 'Mater' (19081976); Annie Georgina 'Nanny' (19111988); Julia 'Judy' (19141958); and Harriet 'Harrie' (19161972). [24] Smith phoned the Oxford Street Maternity Hospital that evening and was told that Julia had given birth to a boy. John Lennon was born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940, meaning he [38] Cavill played piano, but as the house had none he bought a guitar; admitting he knew almost nothing about chords: "My father had a violin and I had learned to play pizzicato on it, so when I got the guitar I played tunes on the strings, and John [Lennon] did the same". [32] Smith also took her charge to a garden party in Calderstones Park every year, where a Salvation Army band played. [33] She would later say: "John loved his uncle George [Smith]. Julia was eventually persuaded to hand over the care of John to the Smiths. He remained close to her throughout his life, although Mimi was highly dismissive of Lennon's girlfriends and wives. 'Get under shelter,' the wardens were shouting. [31] Every summer, from the age of nine until he was fifteen, John was sent alone on a ten-hour bus journey to visit his Aunt Mater and cousin Stanley Parkes at their home near Loch Meadie in Durness, on the north coast of Scotland. [17] Friends of Lennon later stated that his aunt based everything on decorum, honesty, and a black-and-white attitude: "Either you were good enough or you were not. Nowhere Boy is a 2009 British biographical drama film about John Lennon's adolescence, his relationships with his aunt Mimi Smith and his mother Julia Lennon, the creation of his first band, the Quarrymen, and its evolution into the Beatles.The film is based on a biography written by Lennon's half-sister Julia Baird. He can't stay here. We'll have to stop this! [74] After Lennon's death, Smith was furious to find out that he had never transferred the ownership of the house over to her, which meant that Ono owned the house, and could sell it at any time. Little, Brown and Company (New York). [43], Although Smith later claimed that she had bought John's first guitar, it was actually his mother who did so, after Lennon had pestered her incessantly for weeks. She sold the house for 6,000 in 1965, and Lennon bought her a 25,000 bungalow by the beach called Sandbanks, at 126 Panorama Road, Poole, in Dorset, which was Mimi's home for the rest of her life. [68][77] The new house on the site is now called 'Imagine'. [43] In the summer of 1962, Cynthia discovered that she was pregnant with Lennon's child. Mimi exchanged letters with her relatives over the years, so Lennon arranged for a Beatles' tour to visit New Zealand in 1964, in part because he wanted to give Mimi the gift of a visit to her relatives. [67][68] On 5 December 1980, three days before Lennon was murdered, he called Mimi to say he was homesick and was planning a trip back to England. Despite the animosity between Cynthia and Mimi, Varcoe remembered Cynthia crying throughout the whole funeral, and said that Mimi had always spoken positively about her. 'Oh, be quiet,' I told them. Harper Paperbacks - Rev/Updated edition. During the night, other carers were present. The courtship lasted almost seven years, but Smith grew tired of waiting. Ono put Mimi's home up for sale on the same day as Mimi's cremation, and sometime later the house was torn down.[72][73]. [14][15][16] After the birth of his daughters, Stanley stopped going to sea and got a job with the Liverpool and Glasgow Tug Salvage Company as an insurance investigator. [29] John then lived continuously at Mendips in the smallest bedroom, which was located above the front door. I had never seen this complete, so I thought I would share it. The Beatles Wiki is a FANDOM Music Community. The Beatles' success later enabled Lennon to buy her a bungalow in Poole, Dorset, where she lived until her death in 1991. From an [78], Smith was portrayed on film in Birth of The Beatles (1979),[79] John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985),[80] In His Life: The John Lennon Story (2000),[81] and by actress Kristin Scott Thomas in Nowhere Boy (2009). [2][3] Annie gave birth to a boy and a girl, who both died shortly after birth, and then had Mary, known as 'Mimi' (1906-1991), Elizabeth 'Mater' (1908-1976), Anne 'Nanny' (1911-1988), Julia 'Judy' (1914-1958), and Harriet 'Harrie' (1916-1972). Rock Musician. "[42] Later comparing his pre-fame living circumstances at Mendips with those of the other Beatles, he said, "In the class system it was about a half an inch in a higher class than Paul, George and Ringo, who lived in subsidised government houses. According to Lennon, the Stanley family once owned the whole of Woolton village. Stanley was a merchant seaman often away at sea so was absent from some census records. John Lennon practising That'll Be The Day With Aunt Mimi - Mendips Liverpool 1958. [43] Even though Mimi was described as having been a domineering woman, Ono later compared herself to Mimi when describing her own relationship with Lennon. [82], Aunt and parental guardian of John Lennon, "Mary Elizabeth Smith" redirects here. We owned our own house, had our own garden. [25] According to Smith, she went straight to the hospital during the middle of an air raid, and was forced to hide in doorways to avoid the shrapnel. Although his mother never lived more than 10 miles from him, he would only see her occasionally. [59] It was renovated to make it look as it was in the 1950s when Lennon lived there, and Ono visited it before it was opened to the public. They bought a semi-detached house called Mendips named after the range of hills at 251 Menlove Avenue, in a middle-class area of Liverpool. [35][20][36] The Smiths had rented their two first-floor bedrooms to students for extra income since 1947, while the Smiths slept in the former dining room; on the ground floor, at the back of the house. ISBN 0-340-89828-3. . 'Get under the shelter,' the wardens were shouting. The Beatles Anthology DVD 2003 (Episode 1 - 0:05:43) Lennon talking about being raised by Mimi. Mimi Smith, John Lennons aunt, on the steps of her house in Sandbanks It may not have been the haunt of footballers, pop stars and Russian plutocrats that it is today, but when John Lennon bought his aunt Mimi Smith a waterside home at Sandbanks around fifty years ago, it was already an exclusive address. [57] After Lennon's death, Ono and Sean Lennon visited Mimi in Liverpool, where she was staying at Aunt Anne's house because of a heart condition. [20] Smith started courting Mimi, but was constantly thwarted by her indifference and her father's interference. It was the first time the two women had met. His parents separated when he was four, and his mothers sister, Mary Smith (Johns famed Aunt Mimi) took over caring for him. Mimi brought John up in her home in Liverpool and bought him his first guitar for 17.00. [61], The Beatles' success caused a problem for Mimi, as she was constantly pestered by fans at Mendips. Stanley Parkes recollections of his family, "Chapter One: "He Was The One I'd Waited For"", http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=504409&agid=2, Mimis house by reporter Tom Templeton - 30 March 2003, http://www.britishbeatlesfanclub.co.uk/features/2008/0328_lynn_varcoe.html, Stanley Parkes recollections of the Cavern, "Vacant Lot where Mimi's house used to be", http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&mid=1210418568, https://beatles.fandom.com/wiki/Mimi_Smith?oldid=19586. [70][71] The whereabouts of her ashes is unknown. [38] Mimi was cremated at the Poole Crematorium (on the A349 Poole to Wimborne Road) and the reception was at the Harbour Heights Hotel, on Haven Road, Poole, which is close to Sandbanks. [61], Before Christmas 1972, Smith met the then-divorced Cynthia at the funeral of Smith's sister, Harriet, in Liverpool. Smith sternly criticised Cynthia for divorcing Lennon and letting him start a relationship with Yoko Ono by saying she should have stopped him from making "an idiot of himself". Calgue was acquitted of all charges, given a reprimand, and a short suspension from duty. 10-year-old Lennon (right) and his cousin Stanley Parkes by the front door at Mendips. [45] Julia (who knew that her son would be performing) heard music coming from the field behind the church (now the site of the Bishop Martin School), and pulled Smith along with her to listen. Smith had exchanged letters with her relatives over the years, so Lennon arranged for a tour of New Zealand in 1964. [citation needed], Three years after Smith's death, John's mother was killed on Menlove Avenue when, shortly after a visit to Mendips she was knocked down by a car driven by an off-duty police officer, PC Eric Clague. Mimi once referred to Cynthia Powell as "a gangster's moll", and was particularly unpleasant or cold towards her. On 15 September 1939 she married George Toogood Smith who ran his family's dairy farm and a shop in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. Mimi stayed there for five months. She often visited on weekends during Mimi's last years. When he was four years old, Lennon's parents separated and he ended up living with his Aunt Mimi. [16] However, Smith twice contacted Liverpool's Social Services and complained about John sleeping in the same bed as Julia and Dykins. The previous raid had been on 2122 September, and the next was on 16 October, when the areas of Walton and Everton were badly hit. [19], In early 1932 she met George Smith, who lived across from the hospital where she worked, and to which he delivered milk every morning. [47], With help from Smith and John's headmaster, Lennon was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art because his aunt insisted that he should have some sort of academic qualifications, even though he was beginning to show an interest in music. [47], When Lennon returned to Mendips after a Hamburg trip, Mimi threw a cooked chicken (that Lennon had bought especially for her) and a hand-mirror at Lennon for spending money on a suede coat for Cynthia. [17] Annie Stanley died in 1941, so Mimi accepted the responsibility of caring for her father, with help from her younger sister, Julia. [8] Mimi would later say: "John loved his uncle George. [34], With help from Mimi and Lennon's headmaster, Lennon was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art as Mimi was insistent that Lennon should have some sort of academic qualifications, but Lennon was beginning to show an interest in music. [5] Mimi based everything on decorum, honesty, and a black-and-white attitude: either you were good enough or you were not. [11] George later left the milk trade and started a small bookmaker's business, which led Mimi to complain later that George was a compulsive gambler and had lost most of their money. Mimi did not witness the accident, but cried hysterically over Julia's body until the ambulance arrived. [7] George and his brother, Frank Smith, operated a dairy farm and a shop in Woolton that had been in the Smith family for four generations. [19] She became a resident trainee nurse at the Woolton Convalescent Hospital, and later worked as a private secretary for Ernest Vickers, who was an industrial magnate with businesses in Manchester and Liverpool. She became a resident trainee nurse at the Woolton Convalescent Hospital and later worked as a private secretary. I have a new-found respect for Mimi after this. She was born to George Stanley and Annie Jane Millward in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. In early 1932 Mimi met George Smith, a tall and stocky milkman, who lived across from the hospital where Mimi worked and to which he delivered milk every morning. [54] When later asked about the plaque, she would say that Lennon had it made for her husband, and not her. John Lennons Aunt Mimi has become famous for being a strict role model for a young John. [8], George started seriously courting Mimi, but was constantly thwarted by Mimi's indifference and her father's interference. [52], She hoped Lennon would become bored with music; often saying, "The guitar's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it". She was a huge influence on his life and famously did not care for his decision to become a musician. She was born in Liverpool, England and was the eldest of five daughters in the Stanley family. at Clague. "[24] Lennon also said that Mendips was "a nice, semi-detached place, with a small garden and doctors and lawyers and that ilk living around not the poor slummy kind of image that was projected in all the Beatles' stories. In the month following Lennons assassination, his aunt Mimi Smith wrote a letter in response to a reporter Judith Simons of the Daily Express. Strawberry Field, in Beaconsfield Road, was the name of a Salvation Army house that Lennon would later immortalise in the Beatles' song, "Strawberry Fields Forever". [16][18], When other girls were thinking of marriage, Smith talked of challenges and adventures that arose from her attitude of "stubborn independence", and often said that she never wanted to get married because she hated the idea of being "tied to the kitchen sink". DeeDee has also since retired. Stanley would only allow the couple to sit in the back room at Newcastle Road when he or his wife were in the front room, and before it grew too late he would burst into the back room and loudly order Smith home. [15] Smith later left the milk trade and started a small bookmaker's business, which led Mimi to complain later that he was a compulsive gambler and had lost most of their money. [8][13], In July 1946, the returning Alf Lennon visited Mimi and took Lennon to Blackpool, ostensibly for a long holiday, but with the secret intention of emigrating to New Zealand with him. [33] Lennon saw Mimi coming through the crowd and comically changed the words of a song to feature her name. Mary Elizabeth "Mimi" Smith (ne Stanley; 24 April 1906 6 December 1991) was a maternal aunt and the parental guardian of the English musician John Lennon. [16][21] Every summer, from the age of nine until he was 15, Mimi sent Lennon alone on a 10-hour bus journey to visit his Aunt Mater and cousin Stanley Parkes at their home near Loch Meadie in Durness, Scotland. [19] Smith and his brother, Frank Smith, operated a dairy farm and a shop in Woolton that had been in the Smith family for four generations. Most Beatles fans know stories about John Lennons mother Julia, whose early death in 1958 scarred him for life and inspired his music. [58] Nevertheless, John and Cynthia were married on 23 August, at the Mount Pleasant Register office in Liverpool, although Smith did not attend. They wanted me to go into the basement, but I wouldn't. [9] Menlove Avenue suffered extensive damage during World War II, and Mimi often had to throw a wet blanket on incendiary bombs that fell in their garden. She often told the teenage Lennon: "The guitar's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it". [27] Smith later confided to a relative that although she had never wanted children, she had "always wanted John". I felt quite left out of that. Date of experience: September 2014 [10] During the war the government took over the Smiths' farmland for war work, and George was called up for service, but was discharged three years later, and subsequently worked in an aircraft factory in Speke until the end of the war. When a parachute-borne landmine fell outside the hospital, Mimi later said, "My sister [Julia] stayed in bed, and they put the baby [Lennon] under the bed. This was the final straw and led Cynthia, in November 1963, to leave Mendips and move into a bedsit with Julian and her mother. The story of John Lennon's (Aaron Taylor-Johnson's) childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his Aunt Mimi (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) and his mother Julia (Anne-Marie Duff) - the two dominant women in the first part of his life; his first meeting with Sir Paul McCartney (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and George Harrison (Sam Bell), their friendship, their love for [35] Mimi hoped Lennon would become bored with music, and often said, "Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it. 2: Life with the Lions, Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon, Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon, Roots: John Lennon Sings the Great Rock & Roll Hits, Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon, Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, The 30th Annual John Lennon Tribute: Live from the Beacon Theatre, NYC, Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mimi_Smith&oldid=1006255880, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2020, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 February 2021, at 22:14. [38], Although the oldest of the Stanley girls, Mimi was the last of them to die. He can't stay here. We'll have to stop this! Vintage-Random House. For the American gossip columnist, see, sfn error: no target: CITEREFMiles_&_Charlesworthy1998 (, "Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project District of Liverpool", "Lancashire Births Marriages & Deaths Indexes", "Registration Services Certificate Ordering Service", "Chapter One: "He Was The One I'd Waited For" (click on Read an Excerpt, under the book cover)", "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)", "Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono", "Kirsten Scott Thomas to be Lennon's aunt", "John Lennon's iron gift to his beloved aunt is set to go under the hammer", "Relationship: Maternal aunt of John Lennon", "Vacant Lot where Mimi's house used to be", "John Lennon, a Lad; Paul McCartney, a Grown-Up", Unfinished Music No. According to Varcoe, her last words were, "Hello, John". 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