Kenwood

In January 1995, Andrew Hawkins, finding the gates at Kenwood open, took the decision to chance his luck and headed up to the house to see ...

Here's one of the hitherto unseen attic bedrooms in 2006. Which one (at that time there were three, including the former studio) is gues...

This, sadly and happily, represents the peak of this thus far. On several different occasions vaguely contemporary photos of this room have ...

Clicking on the above will provide, as usual, a better view. By 1995, the attic had seen some renovation, most notably the installation of a...

Yawn. Yet another June 29, 1967 attic shot... and this time in colour. How tiresome. Seriously though, any "readahs" in the State...

Another shot from June 29 rears its head, and a fine example too; John in a north-western corner of the grounds at Kenwood, fondling a pot p...

Beat Instrumental, the Beatles Monthly's sister publication, also covered the June '67 visit to Kenwood, and featured an article abo...

Yet another attic photo appears, this time showing the hitherto unseen end of John's studio, which turns out to have housed... yet anoth...

We have seen the photo of John with his outsize horn before - but, crucially, not uncropped - and it's the extra portion which, at long ...

The attic area - ca. October 1964; marked on the plan "Left As Existing". This, of course, was where John, Cynthia and Julian live...

The layout and exact location of John's attic studio have proved hard to pin down. However, that "new" photo of John tuning up...

I recently ordered a magazine with the tantalising front page announcement "John At Home In 1967 - Rare Pictures"; well, how could...

Inferior quality ("shitty" could be justifiably used), and yet, for all that, a rarely seen attic studio variant from June 1967, a...

It's only when you view Kenwood from above that you get an idea of how it all fits together - it really is a very eccentric building. Ba...