John Lennon's toilet goes on display in the Liverpool Beatles Museum

Love Me Do-Do! Porcelain toilet used by the late John Lennon at Tittenhurst Park mansion he shared with Yoko Ono is put on display at Liverpool museum

Beatles fans were flushed with excitement on Thursday after John Lennon’s toilet was put on display in a museum.

The porcelain loo was unveiled as the new exhibit at the Liverpool Beatles Museum, much to the surprise of onlookers.

The blue and white floral patterned toilet was from John’s Tittenhurst Park property, where he lived with Yoko Ono from 1969 to 1971 before it was sold to Ringo Starr.

Love Me Do-Do! Beatles fans were flushed with excitement on Thursday after John Lennon’s toilet was put on display in a museum

Now, it has been loaned to the museum by Gary Honniball, who bought the toilet for £1,000 at an auction.

Fans were invited to see the mystery new exhibit but only discovered that it was John’s toilet when it was finally unveiled. 

The reveal was met with laughs, smiles and a humorous comment of: ‘It’s John’s john.’

Speaking about temporarily adding the toilet to their collection, museum owner Roag Best – and the brother of original Beatles drummer Pete Best – said it was ‘a bit quirky’.

Display: The toilet has been loaned to the museum by Gary Honniball, who bought the toilet for £1,000 at an auction. Pictured: John Lennon performing with The Beatles 

He said: ‘[Gary] contacted us, told us that it was just sitting in his house, gathering dust, (and asked), “Would we like to put it on display in the museum?”

‘We thought, “Well, it’s a bit quirky, it’s not what we’d normally display but who’s to say what you should and shouldn’t display, so, come on, we’ll give it a go”.’

Gary became the owner of the loo when Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan bought the late singer’s estate in 1989 and then sold its contents.

It was not the only toilet from Tittenhurst Park that was sold, with Mr Best revealing that another loo was sold more recently for £15,000.

Memorabilia: The porcelain loo was unveiled as the new exhibit at the Liverpool Beatles Museum, much to the surprise of onlookers

The lavish 71-acre home in Sunninghill, Berkshire, was where the global superstar composed popular 1971 track Imagine.

Speaking of the ‘quirky’ new museum feature, Mr Best added: ‘I think visitors to the museum are going to think, “That’s really quirky”, or “Are these guys mad?” 

‘But we like to do things outside the box so it fits in perfectly.

‘It’s a very, very fancy loo and it’s possibly the most expensive loo in the country.’

Home: The blue and white floral patterned toilet was from John’s Tittenhurst Park property, where he lived with Yoko Ono (both pictured at the home in 1970) from 1969 to 1971

John was assassinated in 1980 when he was shot by Mark David Chapman and he would have celebrated his 82th birthday on October 9, 2022.

The item joins a host of other memorabilia on display at the Mathew Street museum owned by Mr Best, who is the brother of The Beatles’ original drummer Pete.

Pete was later replaced by Ringo Starr and another change in the band saw original bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe, leave to pursue his career as a painter, before his untimely death in 1962.

Family: The item joins a host of other memorabilia on display at the Mathew Street museum owned by Mr Best, who is the brother of The Beatles’ original drummer Pete (pictured in 1996)

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