The Beatles' Cavern Club in 'fight for survival'

The Cavern Club, best known for launching The Beatles, faces ruin as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

It opened in Liverpool in 1957 and hosts about 800,000 visitors per year.

Bill Heckle, one of the club's directors, said it had lost £30,000 a week since the lockdown began in March.

"We went five months before unfortunately we had to make about 20 people redundant. We think we might have to make another 20 redundant in the next few weeks."

The Beatles played their first Cavern gig in 1961 and the late entertainer Cilla Black worked as a cloakroom attendant at the Mathew Street premises.

Source: bbc.com

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