Post by Dr Winston on Dec 7, 2006 17:59:46 GMT 1
Thelma, the Cavern's much-loved 'ma', dies
Source: Liverpool Echo
A STALWART of the Cavern who watched the birth of Merseybeat and The Beatles has died.
Tributes were paid today to Thelma Wilkinson, who ran the snack bar at the Mathew Street club from the day it opened in 1957.
The mother-of-four worked at the Cavern throughout the 1960s and was responsible for creating the rotas for the snackbar and cloakroom attendants, including a certain Priscilla White.
Daughter Sandra Curry said: "Mum started at the Cavern when it was a jazz club and worked there right up until the club closed.
"She was known to people simply as Thelma from the snack bar.
"She loved the Cavern, it was a major part of her life. She went through the start of the Merseybeat sound and she really loved the music. Mum idolised Gerry Marsden. He used to call her 'ma' and she called him son."
The last time Mrs Wilkinson saw some of the bands from the Cavern was at the funeral of Bob Wooler in 2002.
Source: Liverpool Echo
A STALWART of the Cavern who watched the birth of Merseybeat and The Beatles has died.
Tributes were paid today to Thelma Wilkinson, who ran the snack bar at the Mathew Street club from the day it opened in 1957.
The mother-of-four worked at the Cavern throughout the 1960s and was responsible for creating the rotas for the snackbar and cloakroom attendants, including a certain Priscilla White.
Daughter Sandra Curry said: "Mum started at the Cavern when it was a jazz club and worked there right up until the club closed.
"She was known to people simply as Thelma from the snack bar.
"She loved the Cavern, it was a major part of her life. She went through the start of the Merseybeat sound and she really loved the music. Mum idolised Gerry Marsden. He used to call her 'ma' and she called him son."
The last time Mrs Wilkinson saw some of the bands from the Cavern was at the funeral of Bob Wooler in 2002.
