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Alan Herring, a former Beatles chauffeur, has placed a number of items once belonging to the Fab Four up for auction.

Not least amongst them is a £2 parking ticket Ringo Starr received in April 1969, the starting bid of which will be no less than £1500.

The fine was issued outside of Beatles’ Apple headquarters, in London’s Savile Row.

Another item is a cigarette lighter kept in the car for Beatles.

Herring is also auctioning a broken pair of John Lennon‘s sunglasses the Beatle instructed him to keep after he left them in the back seat of Ringo’s Mercedes in 1968.

“They are such an integral part of John Lennon’s image right from the mid-60s to his death,” Alan has said of the fractured spectacles. “He goes through so many fashion changes but the one constant is the sunglasses – if you want to draw a caricature of John Lennon, it’s the long hair and the sunglasses.”

Herring worked for the Beatles during the latter half of the 1960s, specifically ferrying Starr and George Harrison about London on business and most likely to studio sessions for The White Album and Abbey Road.

“The memories I have of this very special time in my life working with the Beatles are far more important to me than the things I kept which are associated with them,” Herring has said of his decision to sell the items.

More details on the items here.