Sheffield retro: 17 nostalgic pictures of lost nightclubs and live music venues to take you back to the 70s

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00:00 This gallery shows just a few of the many nightclubs frequented across Sheffield in

00:06 recent decades. All of them have layered histories which, thanks to the internet, have been preserved

00:10 for us today, despite the clubs and venues themselves being long gone. Josephine's,

00:16 pictured in the early 80s here, is said to have been one of the three main nightclubs

00:20 and live music venues alongside Cairo's and Roxy's in the 70s and 80s. One former clubber

00:26 said that Josephine's, or Josie's, could afford to be selective as the smallest of the three

00:31 and that you could never quite be sure whether the bouncers would let you in. Romeo and Juliet's,

00:36 pictured here, is remembered to be the only nightclub in the 70s to open on a Sunday night.

00:41 New Order played at Romeo and Juliet's in April 1981 and the building on Bank Street

00:46 housed a succession of nightclubs before and after it, including Corporation, or Corp,

00:51 which later moved to Milton Street, where it remains today.

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