George's Home (1950-1962)
25 Upton Green

George was one of four children of Harold and Louise Harrison. This large family had been living in a "two up, two down" while waiting for a Council house (homes built by the City of Liverpool to meet the need for quality housing after World War II). After eighteen year's wait, their turn came. The Speke estate, on the southern end of greater Liverpool, had been newly built when the Harrison family moved there in 1950. George was years old.

In 1954, George attended the Liverpool Institute in the city center. He would often ride the same bus to school as the boy who lived around the corner from him, Paul McCartney, and the two soon struck up a friendship based on their mutual love of music.

George's mother was a big fan of her son's early musicianship. In 1956, George and his brother Peter played their only gig in the Rebels band at a nearby British Legion Club. After George joined the Quarry Men, the group begun by John Lennon which Paul McCartney joined in 1957, this home was a favorite rehearsal space for the group. The group even performed at the home on the occasion of brother Harry's wedding reception on December 20, 1958.

The Harrison family continued to live in the home until 1962.