The venue on Barker’s Pool was an Odeon cinema in the 1980s before becoming a nightclub, most recently Kingdom and then Embrace.
Now it is being revamped into a leisure space intended for a new operator – can you spot where you once danced?
5. Embrace opened in 2000
Embrace opened in May 2000 after a seven-figure sum was spent refurbishing the venue from its Kingdom days. Dancers, from left: Victoria Eames, Stevie Tarbuck, Steff Dalton, and Laura Gregory. Photo: Mike Waistell
6. Embrace change
The striking red frame will be swept away this summer. Photo: David Walsh
7. Gatecrasher
An old club night poster still up in the club - but do you recognise the logo? Photo: David Walsh
8. Developer
Andrew Davison, project director at Queensberry, the council’s development partner for Heart of the City II in the old Embrace nighclub. Photo: David Walsh