Casbah Coffee Club Historic Site
Cellar coffee club painted by the young Beatles, where the Quarrymen played its opening night.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Casbah Coffee Club in West Derby, Liverpool, follows Mona Best, a mother who decided in nineteen fifty-nine to turn her cellar into a members-only coffee club for her sons and their friends. You'll hear about the three teenagers who turned up while she was still painting, a cancelled booking, and a drummer who lived upstairs. Best heard from the drive, looking at the house.
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