Sheffield retro: Noughties nights out at Kingdom, Republic and Bar Matrix

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00:00 It was a decade which gave us the first iPhone, Facebook and the Nintendo Wii,

00:06 but for all the technological advances of the noughties, the art of enjoying a great night out did not change.

00:12 For many people in Sheffield during the early 2000s, that meant heading to Kingdom or the Republic nightclubs, or to Bar Matrix.

00:21 This retro photo gallery captures happy times at those popular night spots, all of which have since been lost during that era.

00:29 Bar Matrix was on Charter Square in Sheffield City Centre, across the road from the back of Debenhams, under the Telephone House tower.

00:37 It would later become Nylon.

00:40 The Republic opened in the nineties at a former steelworks on Matilda Street,

00:44 and earned legendary status as the home of the pioneering Gatecrusher nightclub before burning down in 2007.

00:51 Kingdom nightclub was on Barkers Pool in Sheffield City Centre, at the site of the old Odeon Cinema and Gaumont Picture House,

00:59 with the building currently undergoing a major renovation.

01:03 Do you have happy memories of nights out at any of these popular night spots, or all three?

01:09 [Silence]