Watch: a tour of 12 former Sunderland nightclubs we've loved and lost

For a certain generation, it’s like a secret mackem language.

Annabels. Bentleys. Finos.

Names that conjure up an entire world that doesn’t exist anymore – or at least not in quite the same way.

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Tony Gillan takes us on a tour of dozen nightspots from back in the day.

Take a tour of old Sunderland nightspots with our fountain of knowledge, Tony Gillan
Take a tour of old Sunderland nightspots with our fountain of knowledge, Tony Gillan
Take a tour of old Sunderland nightspots with our fountain of knowledge, Tony Gillan

Or rather, we suppose, the night.

He also recalls a rather cruel nickname given to one of the more popular ones.

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