In My Life with songfacts
(Piano Solo Picture Songfacts) Sorry that picture didn't come out too well here are the facts in that picture:
According to John Lennon: The Life and Legend (The Sunday Times: A Special Tribute 1980), Lennon began writing this in 1964. He forgot about the song for a while and he wrote it again one year later, with lyrics talking about people from his childhood and younger years. In John's original handwritten lyrics he made reference to several places in Liverpool:
-"Penny Lane is one I'm missing
-Up Church Rd to the clocktower
-In the circle of the abbey
-I have seen some happy hours.
-Past the tramsheds with no trams
-On the 5 bus into town
-Past the Dutch and St Columbus
-To the Dockers Umbrella that they pilled down."
-The Dockers Umbrella was the world's first overhead railway (opened 1893). St Columbus could refer to a school the bus passes.