This retro photo gallery shows some of the beloved institutions where the beer flowed and the beats echoed back then.
From the Roxy and the Republic to the Wapentake and Stone House, it features many of Sheffield’s most popular clubs, pubs and bars from that era.
Clubbers are seen giving it their all on the dancefloor, and the landlords, landladies and their staff are pictured behind the bar at these much-loved institutions.
The nostalgic pictures include pubgoers taking part in traditional ‘cakin’ neet’ celebrations, a VIP guest opening a new nightclub complex and the unique interior of a lost Sheffield watering hole which was like no other.
Were you a regular at any of these pubs, clubs and bars in the 80s or 90s, and do these photos bring back happy memories for you of great nights out back then?
1. Trippets
Trippets Wine Bar and Bin 89, wine merchants, on Trippet Lane, looking towards Rockingham Street and Portobello Street, Sheffield city centre, in February 1992 | Picture Sheffield
2. Peacock
David and Barbara Neville at the Peacock Hotel, Owler Bar, Sheffield, in 1999 | Sheffield Newspapers Ltd Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
3. Arena Leisure Park
Guests dance the night away at the opening of the new nightclub complex at the Arena Leisure Park in 1997 | Sheffield Newspapers Photo: Sheffield Newspapers
4. Wapentake
Pictured outside the Wapentake bar, on Wellington Street, Sheffield, in 1998 are Def Leppard fan Tadashi Onuma, from Tokyo, Japan, holding Def Leppard memorabilia from the bar, and the Wapentake's owner Bob Murvin | Sheffield Newspapers Photo: Sheffield Newspapers