Smith’s Cavern Newsagents

It’s something of a given that many businesses in the area directly around Mathew Street will attempt to cash in on their proximity to the place where The Beatles played many of their early gigs so it’s no surprise really that a newsagent, a good five or six minute walk away from the site of the actual Cavern club, decided to use the name above their door.
Once you’re through the door though, there is very little Beatles-​y about what you’ll find in here — just the standard array of newspapers, magazines, sweets and crisps. Maybe the Fab Four would have approved though; I have heard that George Harrison liked very much to pick up a copy of Take-​a-​Break magazine and a king size Twix and that you couldn’t keep John Lennon away from the scratchcards.
They do a decent selection of pick-​and-​mix here too, and that’s not to be sniffed at. They even have my favourite, fizzy strawberries. There’s been no attempt to market them as fizzy strawberry fields forever though, which I feel they’ve missed a trick with really.