When it was all going there was music in the pubs at lunch time. Oh yeah, even up the North End. The North End would just be heaving in the mid 60s you know, just be heaving. People playing mu...

Dennis: "Yes, The Custom House on the corner of Mersey Street and Canning Place. It was run by Nelly Flannigan, well known in the city and to everybody and all the licensees and they called he...

"All around there was all warehouses and The Cavern itself, that building it seems was a warehouse once upon a time, so who thought of opening that place down there in the cellar I’ll never know bu...

We’d have a room where you could sit while the clothes were drying and of course, women being women, we’d be drinking tea and all be talking ‘what do you think about this and what do you think...

"It was a very busy pub. I remember that the tables were made out of barrels, they were like barrel shaped and that's always stuck in my mind." Barbara Harrsion

Bert: "I’ll tell you when it lost its character, when they made it into a pavement zone and was pedestrian only. Before that there was traffic going up and down." Bettina: "Oh you used to be a...

In the 50s for instance, in Church Street there was none of this one way traffic and all that. Church Street was open to traffic because they used to have a police woman; you know where Marks ...

About half way along where Woolworths was, there was a policeman or woman always stood in the middle of the road. In fact there was a proper little stand in the middle of the road, stood about...

"It was mostly frequented by the sailors, because they used to get a lot of the Merchant Navy in Liverpool, of course." Bettina Silverton

See that was Owen Owen's that there, and on the other end of it was Reece's cafe which was on the top floor and we used to sneak in there when we were kids and have a look round, you know? But...