Retro: ‘It’s a Friday night in the 1980s - here are 7 iconic Nottingham pubs I’m visiting on a pub crawl’

The country was in a very different place back in the 1980s.

With Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in power, the UK experienced a turbulent decade.

The ‘80s will be remembered by many for high levels of unemployment and The Troubles in Northern Ireland, but it’s fair to say that the decade wasn’t all doom and gloom.

From the New Wave bands Duran Duran and New Order to the acid house movement of the late ‘80s, the music of that era still lives on to this day.

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The music of the ‘80s created a real vibrancy felt in pubs and clubs across the land, providing young people with a break from the reality of the outside world.

We at Nottingham World love nothing more than revisiting the ‘80s, which is exactly what we’re doing today.

Close your eyes and imagine it’s a Friday night in the ‘80s.

We’ve picked out 7 of the city’s pubs that were always guaranteed to form part of a night out during that era.