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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21. Asters
Asters nightclub, in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, is pictured here in 1983 | Hartlepool Mail Photo: Mail
22. Fat Moe's
Teenagers are pictured here strutting their stuff at Fat Moe's Disco, on Ocean Road, South Shields, in March 1971. It catered for 14-to-17-year-olds. | Shields Gazette Photo: Shields Gazette