The Cavern Club.

miguel · Post by **miguel** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:00 pm

I would be interesting if we could put here some pictures of The Cavern Club. I'll search for some good ones and I´ll be posting them in a couple of days.

miguel · Post by **miguel** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 12:48 am

Here is a rare picture of The Cavern´s staircase, taken in 1957 - 1959 and included in a leaflet published in Liverpool when The Cavern was a jazz club. I have seen many pictures of The Cavern, but I believe this is the first one I found that actually shows the staircase. The entrance to the club was slightly rebuilt in 1964, but I reckon that the stairs were never touched.

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:34 am

I beleive on the City of Liverpool's web site there's a live web cam of Matthew Street and the cavern. When I was there in '81 it was just a dirt lot.

admin · Post by **admin** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:59 am

Here is a photo of the Coney Island Skiffle Group that performaed on opening night at the Cavern on January 16, 1957.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:03 am

They one on the left looks like Don Everly and the one on the right like Buddy Holly.

miguel · Post by **miguel** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:45 pm

Peter: a great photo! I have never seen this one before. I´ll post a new picture a.s.a.p

miguel · Post by **miguel** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:12 pm

More about the 'Cavern' stairs. I have been reading several Liverpool - related books lately, and it seems that there is a conflict: Bob Wooler says that the stairs were made of stone, but other sources say that were made of wood. And another interesting info: this kind of cellar used to have a back - entrance or exit. For what I have read, if the 'Cavern' had one, it was closed with bricks long before the sixties. But there is more: the 'Cavern' had a side door, leading to a narrow lane and then to Mathew St. This door was somewhere between the 'Cavern' offices (ground level) and the basement.