UPDATE (6/19): The International Slavery Museum has deduced that Penny Lane’s name is not connected to the slave trade. Liverpool’s Penny Lane — of Beatles fame — might be renamed, according to Steve ...

The city of Liverpool is looking at the history of Penny Lane to determine if the street, memorialized in a Beatles song of the same name, is named after a notorious slave trader. The idea surfaced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mary Chadwick, manager of The Beatles Story, and Steve Rotheram, mayor of Liverpool City Region, holding the Penny Lane street ...

Earlier this month, Liverpool's Penny Lane, which inspired the Beatles song of the same name, was vandalized with the perpetrators suggesting that the landmark had ties to 18th century slave trader ...

The signs for Liverpool’s Penny Lane are often decorated with graffiti: names, dates, well wishes to the Beatles who immortalized the street in their 1967 hit. This month, though, the scrawlings ...

The road signs on Penny Lane in Liverpool have been defaced because of the street name's alleged connection to a slave merchant. On Thursday night, someone sprayed painted over the word "Penny" on the ...