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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Business
Storm Newton

The Liverpool shopping centre that would have queues out the door every Saturday

The once bustling Cavern Walks was home to the city's luxury boutiques and ECHO readers have shared their favourite memories of the shopping arcade.

Cavern Walks burst onto Liverpool's shopping scene in the mid-1980s, a luxury addition to a city that was facing economic difficulties. In close proximity to Mathew Street and the main shopping thoroughfares of Lord Street and Church Street, the destination was destined for success.

By the early noughties its shops were frequented by WAGs Colleen Rooney and Alex Gerrard, and the space hosted fashion shows headed by a then unknown Abbey Clancy. It was home to favourites such as Cricket, Kids Cavern and Vivienne Westwood, and much-loved café Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

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