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Any group who applied to play at the Iron Door were always given the chance. There were numerous halls on the outskirts of Liverpool City promoting Beat groups one or two nights per week. In 1958 before we opened the Iron Door Harry Ormesher & myself promoted Beat groups in the City centre on a ...

Just in case some one spots the deliberate error
AS we all know they were THE SILVER BEETLES.

The Beatles were just another rock band in 1960. Their first appearance at The Iron Door they were called The Silver Beatles was on a Sunday afternoon May 15th 1960.(The Iron Door site describes this first visit in some detail)it was obvious they had a lot of catching up to do with the bands that we...

Welcome Clem as you were friendly with most of the groups who performed at the club including The Searchers & The Beatles it would be interesting to have an insight as to what they were like off stage,also what type of clientele visited the club would you describe them as mainly Mods or Rockers.

The date the advert was placed in The Liverpool Echo reads March 8th 1961.

This information that The Beatles will be performing at The Iron Door lunch-time

Temple Street was heaving every day and more so when we opened for the lunch time sessions we did receive the odd complaint, every one who had any interest in the street, just had to cope with the situation. We opened at 11-30 the bands would start about 12'o'clock finish at 3-30.The Police spent so...

Temple Street is in the commercial district of Liverpool. It is a narrow street between Victoria Street (at the bottom of the picture)and Dale Street. The building in the distance was The Fruit Exchange. The street was a mixture of large warehouses mainly dealing in fruit from abroad. Other building...

The Iron Door officially opened as a licenced club on April 9th 1960. The next name change was to The Liverpool Jazz Society then to The Storyville. In 1963, it reverted back to the Iron Door. Cilla Black first sang at the club on one of the afternoon lunch-time sessions in March 1961. Her career to...

Bob worked for a large retail store called Lewis's, the one with the statue of a naked man above one of the entrances. He was in charge of all the art work and window dressing. He did, however, retain a small attic studio room in a four story house at 17 Slater Street in the city centre. A group of ...

Peter I should add another person who was part of the Iron Door gang I still have contact with is my wife we met at the club she worked in the cloakroom

Pam Beesley's description of her first visit to The Iron Door(Iron Door Site)is for me a good introduction to the Club.The real hub of the Iron Door started when all the members had left,musicians would arrive from all over Liverpool,they would jam together have discussion groups show each other ne...

I recently traced both the managers of The Iron Door 1964 was the last time I saw either of them. Clem Dalton who appears to have worked at the BBC.Brian (Jessie) James went to school(Dovedale Road)with John Lennon and later became good friends,also not forgetting Sam Leach who I have seen on a regu...

Thank you for the warm welcome to the Rick Resource Forum.I shall be delighted to join in the discussion's on the site and try and answer any question's on The Iron Door.