Article: Strawberry Fields Orphanage to Close


AP Online
01-12-2005
Dateline: LONDON


The gates to the Strawberry Field Childrens Home in Liverpool, England, immortalised by the Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever, are pictured Wednesday Jan. 12 2005. The children's home is to close due to the current preference of placing children with foster carers rather than institutions, the Salvation Army confirmed Wednesday. A young John Lennon used to visit the Strawberry Field home to play with the orphans. (AP Photo/Paul Ellis)

Strawberry Fields is not forever, after all.

The Liverpool children's home that inspired the Beatles' hit song is to close, officials said Wednesday.

The psychedelic single "Strawberry Fields Forever" was released in ...

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