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    "headline": "PETA asks for the Liverpool house where Paul McCartney learned guitar to be donated as a museum",
    "description": "The two-bedroom home at 43 Elswick Street has a £150,000 to £170,000 estimate, and online bidding at Omega Auctions closes on October 26.",
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    "articleBody": "PETA wants a two-bedroom terraced house in Liverpool, England, handed over for free. The animal rights group has written to Omega Auctions, the Merseyside firm selling 43 Elswick Street, asking that the property be donated and turned into a museum about Paul McCartney’s decades of animal advocacy. The house is listed with an estimate of £150,000 to £170,000, and bidding closes at 1 p.m. UK time on October 26. “Transforming this house into a museum would give visitors the chance to discover where Paul McCartney’s remarkable musical journey began and how he has used his extraordinary platform to make the world a kinder place,” PETA Vice President Elisa Allen wrote, according to the group’s October 14 release. PETA’s headline calls the idea an “Animal Empathy Museum.” Why this house matters to Beatles history Elswick Street sits in the Dingle district of Liverpool, in the L8 postcode. Number 43 was the home of Ian James, a school friend of McCartney’s who lived there with his grandparents. According to the auction listing, the boys met at the house with friends to play guitar and listen to rock and roll records by artists such as Little Richard and Fats Domino. The link is not fan folklore. McCartney put it in writing in 2006, when James sold the guitar the two had shared for £330,000. In his letter of provenance, McCartney described the instrument as “the first guitar I ever held” and said it was the one on which he learned his first chords “in his house at 43 Elswick Street, Liverpool 8.” Omega has handled Beatles real estate before: it previously sold the former home of Julia Lennon, John’s mother, and a childhood home of George Harrison. Its director of operations and consignments, Dan Muscatelli-Hampson, said the firm expects “similar interest in this historic house.” What PETA is asking for, and what it would cost the seller PETA’s letter went to the auction house, not to a named owner, and the seller has not been identified publicly. We found no public reply from Omega Auctions or the seller as of October 16. That matters for fairness: a donation would mean whoever owns the house giving up a sale at a price set by the market, not just a sentimental gesture. The numbers in the auction terms show what is in play: Starting bid: £145,000, with a reserve. Buyer’s premium: 6% including VAT, so £9,000 on a £150,000 hammer price or £10,200 at £170,000. Due right after the sale: a 10% deposit plus that premium, which works out to £24,000 at the low estimate and £27,200 at the top. Extras: up to £1,500 plus VAT toward the seller’s legal fees, with completion required within 20 working days. Even the top estimate is a little over half of what the guitar alone fetched 20 years ago: £170,000 against £330,000, so the guitar sold for about 1.9 times the house’s highest expected price. Bidders also need advance approval and a £1,000 refundable deposit just to take part. McCartney’s long record on animals PETA’s case leans on a record McCartney has built over decades. He is a committed vegetarian and the source of the line PETA quotes most often: “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.” With his daughters Mary and Stella, he has continued the work of his late wife, Linda, through the Meat Free Monday campaign, which the three launched in June 2009. PETA also cites his narration of its Glass Walls documentary, the donation of his song “Looking for Changes” to campaigns against animal testing, and his push for coffee chains to drop extra charges for plant milk. No response from McCartney appears in PETA’s release or the auction material, and nothing in either suggests he is involved in the sale. The house is a mid-terrace with a porch opening into the living room, a kitchen, a downstairs toilet and a shared back alley, and the street looks down toward the River Mersey. Viewings are by appointment in the two weeks before the sale, which ends October 26. Further reading Wikipedia: Meatless Monday Image: ManoSolo13241324, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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