They are among Tyneside’s most infamous pubs.
Once upon a time you would not have thought twice about popping in for a quick half.
Now closed, these haunts were the stuff of local legend - but not always for the right reasons.
The Northumberland Arms
The infamous North Shields pub was perhaps better known by its nickname - The Jungle.
You may have thought it earned the scary moniker due to the punters, but it was reportedly due to the animal heads which lined the walls over 200 years ago.
A haunt for sailors, it had a reputation many moons ago as a place where you could buy anything - if the price was right.
The New Quay venue closed in 1989 and was later turned into flats.
The Adelphi
A haunt for hooligans, it was even owned by one.
Convicted yob Terry Mann was once banned from every football ground in Britain.
When he wasn’t causing mischief on the terraces, the Newcastle United ‘superfan’ helped operate the Shakespeare Street pub.
And he turned it into a Toon shrine.
But now it is unrecognisable having enjoyed a £200,000 revamp in 2011 - and renamed Lady Grey’s.
The New Monkey
A mecca for ravers, this Sunderland nightspot was also a magnet for the police.
In one of the largest police operations for a decade, officers carried out a raid in 2006 which closed the venue for good.
More than a dozen people were arrested for drugs when around 100 officers stormed the nightspot, which had become a living hell for locals.
One neighbour even claimed they had to visit the caravan during raves to escape their living “nightmare”.
Incredibly, it opened without a booze licence - but drugs were the problem.
Bosses were eventually jailed after being convicted of knowingly letting drugs be sold on the premises.
John Gilpin Inn
When the nicest thing anyone can say about a pub when it closes was “it wasn’t that rough” - it means it probably was.
That was the case when readers mourned the John Gilpin Inn as it was flattened to the ground.
Once an establishment of “hardman” John Henry Sayers, the West Denton boozer was a notorious venue.
One reader even joked: “It was that rough even the piano had a bandage on its leg.”
Derelict for years, it was finally flattened in 2015.
Fleet Street
Trebles, terrible tunes and drag queens.
This Pudding Chare nightspot was infamous for being somewhere a quick after work pint could rapidly descend into an all-nighter.
Previously known as The Printer’s Pie, it got its name due to its proximity to the old Chronicle office.
And some of the stories inside would have been right at home on the front of any paper.
It was also the haunt of Newcastle football firm ‘The Gremlins’, and in the glory days, queues lined Pudding Chare of people desperate to get in.
Sadly, they vanished in 2015 when time was called on it.
Walker’s Nightclub aka La Dolce Vita
The likes of Tom Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ella Fitzgerald visited in the swinging 60s.
But on Tyneside, it was also known for an ‘incident’ involving Paul Gascoigne.
After watching Newcastle play, Gazza and pals went for a few drinks in the city before heading to Walkers.
Once inside, an incident led to him aggravating a knee injury which threatened his big money move to Italy.
The England legend was also pictured leaving the venue in 1991 looking a little worse for wear.
But he wouldn’t have been the only one.
After almost 40 years - and three different names - it was a popular late-night haunt until closing in 2002.
