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An album I own - one of their 1st albums recorded,
An accident in Scotland
Every summer, from the age of nine until he was fifteen, John was sent alone on a ten-hour bus journey to visit his Aunt Mater and Uncle Robert with his cousin Stanley Parkes at their home in Durness, Scotland. Stanley Parks, who lived in Edinburgh and later in Largs, would head to the coast for weeks on end, often being dragged into helping his uncle fix up the house. The house where Lennon holidayed at Sangomore, a settlement at Durness, was demolished around four years a go with a new property built by the owners. A plaque on the wall of the property marks the association with the Beatle.
Lennon last visit Durness in 1969 when he
decided to travel north after flying in from the US with Yoko Ono
and their daughter Kyoko. After collecting his son Julian in London,
the family headed off in a white Austin Maxi. The holiday was cut
short, however, when, on 1st July 1969, Lennon crashed the car
on his way back from a day trip to Tongue after a tourist in a car
came towards him on a single track road near Loch Eriboll.
He and Yoko and Kyoko each suffered cuts to the face and Yoko an
injured back. The family were rushed to Golspie Lawson Memorial
Hospital where Lennon received 17 stitches for wounds to his face,
which left a permanent scar. His wife and daughter also received
treatment for facial injuries.
After returning to London to start recording, Yoko Ono’s back injury
gave her “constant trouble,” and “to save her the discomfort
of sitting for hours on a stool beside him, John had a bed delivered
from Harrods and set it up on the studio floor.”
The smashed white Austin Maxi car, which was taken to Reids garage in Tongue, ended up mounted on a plinth in the couple’s garden.
https://www.practicalclassics.co.uk/archived-feature/the-john-lennon-maxi
