These were some of the most popular nightclubs across the North East between the 1960s and the noughties.
This retro photo gallery captures happy times at these much-missed nightspots around the region, including Sunderland, Newcastle, South Shields and Hartlepool.
Among them is a famous floating nightclub with a revolving dance floor, a venue billed as the ‘most luxurious’ in the North when it opened in the 1960s, and a nightspot which was a favourite haunt of footballers during the 80s.
Do these photos bring back any happy memories of nights out from years past, how many of these venues did you visit, and what do you think was the North East’s best ever nightclub?
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5. Tavern
The Tavern, in South Shields, was a popular 70s nightclub. People are pictured here enjoying the Oktoberfest celebrations there. | Sheffield Photo: Shields Gazette
6. Bentley's
Bentley's was one of Sunderland's most popular nightclubs in the 1980s and 90s. Clubbers are pictured inside the Holmeside venue here in 1989. | Sunderland Echo Photo: Sunderland Echo
7. Walkers
Walkers nightclub in Newcastle was hugely popular during the 1980s. It is pictured here in 1986. | Newcastle Libraries Photo: Newcastle Libraries
8. Finos
This great picture captures some of the smiling faces inside Finos nightclub, on Park Lane, Sunderland, in December 1992. Finos, located on the first floor of what is now the Port of Call bar and grill, was a favourite haunt of Sunderland footballers during the 1980s. | Sunderland Echo Photo: Sunderland Echo