![]() ![]() One day, she overheard John give a compliment to a girl with blonde hair in the college, and the next Saturday she turned up with her hair several shades blonder. He was infatuated with her, but the pair of them tried to play it cool. There, in a calligraphy class, she met John Lennon, who struck up conversation asking to borrow her pens. At the age of 11, she won an art prize in a competition organised by the Liverpool Echo.Ī year later she was accepted into Liverpool’s Junior Art School, which was also attended by Bill Harry, later editor of Liverpool’s Mersey Beat newspaper.Īfter she left school she enrolled in the Liverpool College of Art. ![]() She was born in Blackpool, where her mum was evacuated in 1939, but grew up in Hoylake on the Wirral. ![]() She was the beautiful blonde student who caught John Lennon’s eye at Liverpool College of Art.Ĭynthia Powell was a talented artist, who dreamed of being a teacher. ![]()
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