It's been over four decades but for some the eighties will seem like only yesterday.
It was a time when George Michael was in his prime, The Smiths formed and each week families would settle down to watch the new show Brookside. Margaret Thatcher was prime minister for the whole decade, and Liverpool was undergoing a period of 'managed decline' under the Tory government.
Blacklers wasn't yet home to the Irish pubs and Wetherspoons that inhabit its space today and, if you wanted to, you could happily smoke indoors in most places, as well as visit the Silver Blades or even the Coconut Grove.
