Seven pictures from Sunderland's Barbary Coast venue as we look back at disco lights, workers meetings and high-profile speakers

It went by many names over the years but perhaps you remember it when this was the Barbary Coast.

Here are a selection of photos of the 1980s favourite which Echo readers also remember as the Boilermakers and Monroes.

Do the disco lights and glitter balls bring back memories for you?

Were you one of the Austin and Pickersgill workers who held a meeting there in 1987?

Re-live it all in 7 Sunderland Echo archive photos.

5. Workers at Austin and Pickersgill's Wear shipyard today voted unanimously to continue their five week old strike. The decision was taken at a mass meeting of the 800 men at the Barbary Coast Club. old ref number 58495 Sunderland Echo January 6 1987 black and white

Workers from Austin and Pickersgill's Wear shipyard after a meeting at the Barbary Coast Club in 1987. Photo: SE

Glitter balls galore in this view from 40 years ago. Photo: se

A final 1983 look at the nightclub. What are your memories of it? Photo: Sunderland Echo

Tell us which nightclub was your 80s favourite. Email [email protected] Photo: se