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)3az )3aziah
11-07-2011, 08:05 PM
Can anyone tell me what and/or where the boarded off entrance opposite the Cavern pub is/was. Its the wide access area just to the left (as you look at it) of the brass discs on the wall.

This place has fascinated me for quite some time and I can't find out what it used to be.

Thanks in advance,


Jim
wsteve55
11-07-2011, 11:33 PM
Can anyone tell me what and/or where the boarded off entrance opposite the Cavern pub is/was. Its the wide access area just to the left (as you look at it) of the brass discs on the wall.

This place has fascinated me for quite some time and I can't find out what it used to be.

Thanks in advance,



Jim

Hi Jim,
Any chance of a photo? You've got me curious now!:nod:
Ged
11-07-2011, 11:43 PM
The Mathew Street wall of fame.

http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/3619/mathewstwalloffame.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/847/mathewstwalloffame.jpg/)

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)3az )3aziah
11-07-2011, 11:50 PM
My Bad, its to the RIGHT of the photo above (just on the edge of the frame). Covered in dark blue boards with a pull close gate behind it. The whole thing is about 20 feet wide. I will try and grab a photo tomorrow.

Jim
)3az )3aziah
11-07-2011, 11:52 PM
You can see it better in this shot -the boards are not in place.

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ItsaZappathing
11-08-2011, 12:37 PM
Good pics Ged & Jim. :PDT11
Doris Mousdale
11-09-2011, 04:15 AM
It was the sales area of one of the fruit merchants either Stafford Donning or Cocozza Wood. they used to have the boxes of fruit which had come straight from the docks, oranges,grapes or whatever on display and fruit shops bought their stock from them.The salesman used to stand at a high desk on a sort of platform that would come about shoulder height off the ground (about the height of the fourth wood slat on the wall) so the stock could be loaded straight onto wagons, bit like a sales auction . There were quite a few of the traders down the original Mathew St before they moved out to Stanley Market.The street would also be absolutely packed with vans, wagons and handcarts as anyone who went to the original Cavern can tell you.