Visitors to Mendips will be shown in through the back door to the kitchen. Most of John’s friends and family would have come into the house this way.
This is where John Lennon's Aunt Mimi would cook him his favourite meal of egg and chips washed down with a cup of tea. Here she also proudly hung a framed copy of John's poem, 'A house where there is love'.
Mimi modernised the kitchen in the 1960s with a yellow formica worktop and a double-drainer sink, which stood facing the window to the garden. The floor was covered with black and white kitchen tiles. The Kitchen has been refitted several times since, like kitchens everywhere, but the National Trust has put back most of the 1950s features including the black and white tiled floor, sink unit, formica worktops, cooker and kitchen utensils..
The kitchen leads to the Morning Room, which was the heart of the house, where John would eat his meals and Mimi would sit doing repairs at her Singer sewing machine. Visitors will be able to see a similar sewing machine, and an example of the wireless that the family would have listened to in there.
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