By Eleanor Barlow

Copyright independent

A school desk once used by John Lennon, reportedly hidden due to teachers considering him a “nuisance”, has been discovered in an attic at Quarry Bank School in Liverpool.

The desk, along with Lennon’s enrolment ledger and other school artefacts, will now be a centrepiece at the Liverpool Beatles Museum.

The desk was put into storage around 1963 or 1964 by the headmaster, Bill Pobjoy, who asked the caretaker to remove it after Lennon gained fame with The Beatles.

For many years, school staff actively avoided acknowledging Lennon’s connection to the school, even sending away fans, to prevent students from idolising his disruptive behaviour.

The school now embraces its history, offering tours of sites where Lennon performed with The Quarrymen and scaled the wall separating his school from the girls’ school.