John Lennon 'would chuckle' over commemorative plaque

The irony of the occasion would surely not have been lost on John Lennon.

The site of the Beatle's infamous 1968 drugs bust, 34 Montagu Place in Marylebone, London, is now marked as a site of cultural importance, another important stopping-off point for any Beatles fan who wants to see all the places in Liverpool, London and elsewhere in the UK where the famous four truly became fab.

The building, whose basement flat has a rather remarkable amount of history attached, now sports a shiny blue plaque from English Heritage, proclaiming Lennon's residency there in 1968 with his partner Yoko Ono.

Its addition to the national collection of blue plaque heritage spots is also good timing, coming both in the year that Lennon would have turned 70 - his birthday was on 9 October - and just a few weeks ahead of the 30th anniversary of his murder on 8 December 1980.