Who was Eleanor Rigby

Do you remember that haunting song by the Beatles, the one with the line Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name, nobody came?

A rather depressing song I think and not one that we had grown to get used to from the Beatles.

Well now, the song was real enough, but I have often wondered if there was a real Eleanor Rigby, or not.

Well as luck would have it, I was recently performing some songs in Liverpool and so during my free time I decided to look into this and see what I could find out about Eleanor Rigby.

So, I popped along to the local library, did a little bit of research, and then headed for the part of Liverpool known as Woolton.

When I arrived in Woolton I straight away visited the local church, and their in the churchyard my eye was drawn to one particular tombstone.

Yes, you guessed it, the tombstone had the inscription Eleanor Rigby.

Now this discovery heightened my interest in my research. Could it be possible that one or more of the Beatles might have lived nearby? The answer is yes. As a child John Lennon lived in Menlove Avenue, a stones throw from the church.

This made me think back to my childhood, and I remember as a young boy I and my friends would often play in our local churchyard, playing hide and seek and other games behind the headstones.

With this in mind it is not stretching things too far to assume that as a child John Lennon possibly also played in his local churchyard, and would have noticed the tombstone dedicated to Eleanor.

Time however became my enemy here because I had to move on from Liverpool before being able to search any deeper into this.

But I will be back. This is becoming very interesting to me, and I want to know more about Eleanor Rigby, and the other names that appear on her tombstone.

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