Ringo Starr's love-letters about 'new-group' The Beatles fetch 16,250 pounds

Love letters written by Ringo Starr to his teenage girlfriend from the time he was with his old band Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, have been sold for 16,250 pounds.

The letters, which bear mention to the early days when Starr was about to join the "new group" The Beatles, written to Doreen Speight, who met him at a Butlin's holiday camp in 1961 when she was 16, were sold at a Bonhams auction in London to an anonyous UK collector, the Mirror reported.

Speight rediscovered five out of a dozen letters in a drawer, of which three were sent from 10 Admiral Grove in Liverpool, where Starr grew up.

A Bonhams spokeswoman said that the letters went for more than double the estimated value and most of the messages have photographs of the star enclosed.