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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.