Julia's sister, Mimi, called Julia and Dykins' home-at 1 Blomfield Road, Liverpool-"The House of Sin" and her own house (where Lennon lived) "The House of Correction". Although Julia never divorced Alfred Lennon, she was the common-law wife of Dykins, although Paul McCartney admitted to being sarcastic to Lennon about his mother living in sin while Julia was still married. The Stanley sisters called Dykins a " spiv", because of his pencil-thin moustache, margarine-coated hair, and pork-pie hat, but the young Lennon called him "Twitchy" because of a physical tic and nervous cough Dykins had. Julia later moved into a small flat in Gateacre with Dykins, who had access to rationed goods like alcohol, chocolate, silks and cigarettes. Dykins was said to be a good-looking, well-dressed man who was several years older than Julia and worked at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool as a wine steward. Although they had known each other previously, Julia started dating Bobby Dykins while working in a café near Mosspits, which was Lennon's primary school.
Julia was forced to give up the child for adoption after intense pressure from her father and her sisters. John Lennon was Julia's first child by Alfred Lennon, although she later had a daughter called Victoria (renamed Ingrid) after an affair with a Welsh soldier while Alfred was at sea. She is now a director of Cavern City Tours in Liverpool.Įarly years Julia and Dykins's house at 1 Blomfield Road, Liverpool, where Baird and Jackie Dykins livedīaird's mother, Julia Lennon, was the fourth of five children in the Stanley family: Mary, known as ' Mimi' (1906–1991), Elizabeth 'Mater' (1908–1976), Anne 'Nanny' (1911–1988), Julia 'Judy' (1914–1958), and Harriet 'Harrie' (1916–1973). In 2009, the book was adapted into the film Nowhere Boy. Baird worked as a special needs teacher, and after Lennon's death she wrote John Lennon, My Brother (with Geoffrey Giuliano) and gave up working in 2004 to write Imagine This – Growing up with my brother John Lennon. They had three children together but were divorced in 1981. Julia Dykins (Baird) married Allen Baird in 1968 and moved to Belfast. Lennon invited the Dykins sisters to visit after the success of the Beatles, when he was living in Kenwood, Weybridge, with his then-wife, Cynthia Lennon. After the death of Julia Lennon in 1958, Harriet and Norman Birch were appointed guardians of Julia and Jackie, ignoring Dykins' parentage, as he had never legally married their mother. Lennon started visiting the Dykins' house in 1951. Her younger sister is Jacqueline 'Jackie' Dykins (born 26 October 1949). She also has an older maternal half-sister, Ingrid Pedersen. She is the younger half-sister of English musician John Lennon, and is the eldest daughter of his mother Julia Lennon and John 'Bobby' Albert Dykins. Julia Baird (née Dykins born 5 March 1947) is a British retired teacher and author.
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