Mathew Street is a street in

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, notable as the location of the new

Cavern Club The Cavern Club is a nightclub on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England. The Cavern Club opened in 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 50s and early 1960s. The club became closely assoc ...

the Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all time and were integral to the developmen ...

having played in the original club on numerous occasions in their early career. Mathew Street is visited by thousands of

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a year, who visit the Cavern Club and many surrounding attractions including a statue of

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, a Beatles store, the Liverpool Beatles Museum and several

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formerly frequented by the band. A wall in Mathew Street is adorned by a sculpture by

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entitled "Four Lads Who Shook the World".

Location

The street connects Rainford Gardens (off Whitechapel) to North John Street, and is located in an area of the city centre known today as "The Cavern Quarter". Historically it was the centre of Liverpool's wholesale fruit and vegetable market.

History

The street was originally named Mathew Pluckington Street, after a famous Liverpool merchant. It was also home to the influential music club Eric's, which played host to many famous punk and post-punk bands from its opening in 1976, despite only being open for four years. The fame of Mathew Street led to the arrest of three men in 2006 when an American in

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, viewing the street's

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, saw a burglary in progress and called

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. The psychoanalyst

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is often cited as visiting Liverpool in 1927, but he only recorded a dream in which he had, later published in Jung's autobiography '' Memories, Dreams, Reflections'' of which he wrote As a result, a statue of Jung was erected in Mathew Street in 1987, but being made of

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, was vandalised and replaced by a more durable version in 1993. Today, Mathew Street is one of Liverpool's most popular nightlife destinations.

Image gallery

File:Four Lads 2019.jpg, Mural tribute sculpture to the Beatles by

File:CarlJungStatueLiverpool.jpg, Original statue of Jung in Mathew Street, a half-body on a plinth captioned "Liverpool is the pool of life" File:Flannagans Apple Pub Jung.jpg, Current, more durable statue of Jung

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