Today the O2 Academy is a popular Newcastle rock venue for punk bands -
but it has been a dance hall, cinema and bingo hall
Since the early 1930s this building on Newcastle's Westgate Road has played host to countless Tyneside fun-seekers.
(For any fans of the Dickies - remember them? - they're playing there in July!)
Before it opened as the new Carling Academy in 2005, the venue was a Gala Bingo.
Our photograph was taken in 2004, just before the rockers descended.
And it became a bingo hall after the building , in its most famous incarnation - the Majestic ballroom - came to the end of its lilfe in 1967.
Opened in the late-50s, 'The Maj' became a popular dancing venue and, moving into the 60s played host to live bands such as The Kinks, Manfred Mann and the The Moody Blues.
Its most notable visitors were The Beatles , who appeared at the Majestic twice in 1963, just before they took off into the stratosphere.
The building's earliest use, however was as a cinema. Opening in the early 1930s as the Picture House, it was one of many that sprang up in that decade as the cinema phenomenon exploded across the region and the nation.
One of the first films Newcastle audiences saw there was Hotel Continental, starring Peggy Shannon, in 1932.
Wonder what she would have made of The Dickies ?!