An "intimate" basement nightclub where "many great nights" were had called Liverpool home for decades.
The Liverpool ECHO recently took a brief look back at the Magnet, which held an illustrious and iconic place in the city's heart from when it was founded in 1958. Originally, a street level bar named the Rumblin’ Tum, an eating house famed from the outside for its geometric wood panelling at the window, the basement of the site was named the Sink Club.
One of the city’s first black music venues, many will remember entry was by way of a numbered sink plug on a short length of chain which proved membership. When the venue was called Sink Club, Freddie Mercury first played their with band Ibex.
