The street was originally named Mathew Pluckington Street, after a famous Liverpool
merchant. It was also home to the influential music club
Eric's, which played host to many famous punk and post-punk bands from its opening in 1976, despite only being open for four years. The fame of Mathew Street led to the arrest of three men in 2006 when an American in
Dallas, Texas, viewing the street's
webcam, saw a burglary in progress and called
Merseyside Police. The psychoanalyst
Carl Jung is often cited as visiting Liverpool in 1927, but he only recorded a dream in which he had, later published in Jung's autobiography
Memories, Dreams, Reflections of which he wrote As a result, a statue of Jung was erected in Mathew Street in 1987, but being made of
plaster, was vandalised and replaced by a more durable version in 1993. Today, Mathew Street is one of Liverpool's most popular nightlife destinations. ==See also==