Some would say he never recovered from her loss. The mother he adored was gone, and he spent the rest of his life seeking something for fill the void left by her.
John answered the door of his mother’s house to the police, exactly like it is in the movies he said. He can still picture her red hair blowing in the wind. Nigel heard the brakes and turned round to see his best friend’s mother in the air and slamming onto the road.
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As she crossed the old tram tracks and stepped onto the road, a car, driven by an off-duty policeman who didn’t have a full driving license, slammed on its brakes, but it was too late: the car hit Julia and sent her flying through the air. After saying goodnight, Nigel headed down Vale Road to his house, while Julia crossed the road and headed for the bus stop. Nigel called at Mendips just as Julia was coming out of Mendips, and walked to the corner of Vale Road with her. Julia often used to take the bus to Mendips to see her sister Mimi, and on this occasion, John was in his mother’s house. When making “Looking for Lennon”, our documentary feature film, we interviewed and filmed Nigel Walley, John’s childhood friend and eyewitness to Julia’s death. Having been taken away from his mother at the age of five, he longed for a relationship with her again in his teens. On 15th July 1958, he was to lose his mother for the second time this time it was forever. She had bought him his first guitar, taught him to play a few songs using banjo chords and even let The Quarrymen rehearse in her house. However, what did help him was the re-establishing of a relationship with his mother, Julia. In the June of 1955, his Uncle George had died suddenly. Just three days after making their first record at Percy Phillips’ studio in Kensington, Liverpool, tragedy was to strike John Lennon once more. A young John Lennon with his mother, Julia
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