John Lennon's toilet on display in a museum


A special exhibit awaits fans of John Lennon and the Beatles.

A porcelain toilet that once belonged to John Lennon is housed at the Beatles Museum in Liverpool.

The toilet, which was once in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's home in Berkshire, England, has a blue and white floral pattern and can be seen below.

The item was donated to the museum by a man who paid £1,000 for the toilet at auction in 1989, when Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan bought John Lennon and Yoko Ono's property and sold all its contents.

"A special atmosphere exists in the room as we remember John and reveal a very peculiar object on the 3rd floor (1967-1970)," the Beatles Museum wrote in a post on its Twitter account.

Museum owner Roag Best, who is the brother of original Beatles drummer Pete, explained to BBC News how John Lennon's porcelain toilet ended up among the exhibits.

"The man contacted us, said that (the toilet) was just sitting in his house collecting dust and asked us if we would like to put it up as an exhibit in the museum," he said.

"We thought, 'Well, it's a bit quirky, it's not what we'd normally expose, but who's to say what we should and shouldn't be exposing, so come on, we'll give it a try,'" he continued.

"I think museum visitors will think, 'Are these guys crazy?' But we like to do things out of the ordinary, so this is a perfect fit. It's a very, very fancy toilet and it's probably the most expensive toilet in the country,” he added.

The toilet comes from the listed Tittenhurst Park country house where John Lennon lived with Yoko Ono from 1969 to 1971 and where he wrote his classic song 'Imagine'.

The 290-square-foot mansion was sold to Ringo Starr when John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to New York. Two toilets from Tittenhurst Park have been sold at auction, with Roag Best reporting that the other toilet recently sold for £15,000.