The Beatles wrote “Strawberry Fields Forever” in 1967, inspired by a garden of a Salvation Army children’s home in Liverpool, where John Lennon used to play growing up.
Until now, Beatles fans would look through red metal gates at the garden, without being able to access the location. Strawberry Field announced that starting Saturday (Sept. 14), it will open to the public for the first time.
According to the website, the site is now “home to an interactive visitor exhibition, community café, shop, calm garden spaces for spiritual reflection and – at its heart – a Steps to Work programme for young adults with learning disabilities and other barriers to employment.”
The Victorian house on the site was torn down in 1973, and replaced by a new building that was shut down in 2005.