October 1958, Ye Crack,e Pub 13 Rice Street, Liverpool

ca. 1959

Cynthia met Lennon at art school in Liverpool in 1957 when she was 18 and John was 17. The couple married just before Beatlemania transformed her husband from a jobbing musician into one of the most famous men in the world."We met at art school in Liverpool. I was 18 and he was 17." Cynthia recalled. "He'd just lost his mother. I'd had a boyfriend when I was 17, he was a lot older than me, about 25. And John went out with a girl called Barbara for a couple of years before he met me. So we'd both been through the first flush of romance. I was a bit apprehensive of him. I thought he was very funny, but in a rather cruel sort of way. He was fighting the world. I'd just become a Hiltone blonde and lived in a little room with a bathroom next door where you put a shilling in for a bath. Paul's girlfriend Dorothy had the one next door."