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For a certain generation, it’s like a secret mackem language.
Annabels. Bentleys. Finos.
Names that conjure up an entire world that doesn’t exist anymore – or at least not in quite the same way.
Tony Gillan takes us on a tour of dozen nightspots from back in the day.
Or rather, we suppose, the night.
He also recalls a rather cruel nickname given to one of the more popular ones.
See if you remember it ...