LIVERPOOL MUSIC HERITAGE TRAIL – The Cavern
The Cavern 1957 – 1973
“You could never deny you’d been to the Cavern because of the smell on your clothes. It was unique, a mixture of all different horrible things. No other club had that.”
Freda Kelly, Caven regular and Beatles secretary, 2008
6a Mathew Street, once a warehouse for storing fruit, also acted as shelter during World War Two. Smelly and dank it may have been, but in January 1957, Alan Sytner, a jazz music aficionado had a dream to bring the Left Bank to Liverpool and opened his own basement club there. He called it The Cavern, after Le Caveau in Paris.
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