Mathew Street
Narrow former fruit-market lane, home of the rebuilt cellar club where the Beatles rose to fame.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mathew Street in Liverpool starts with a famous number attached to the Beatles and the cellar club where they played between nineteen sixty-one and nineteen sixty-three, and asks how solid that number really is. It follows the Cavern from a fruit warehouse basement and wartime shelter to its closure in nineteen seventy-three, when British Rail had plans for the site. Best heard standing outside the club's doorway, looking down the lane.
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