Photo: Tom Wood
This article originally appeared on VICE UKI can only speculate about what happened to the people in these pictures. Perhaps, like those I shared the dance floor with, they joined the dole queue or became students or apprentices. Became parents and joiners and accountants, went to the docks or the shipyards, became builders and police officers (bent or otherwise), crooks, drug dealers, musicians, alcoholics and addicts, suicides, murderers, or murder victims. Became prisoners, émigrés, rich, poor or poorer—or all of the above.This is a condensed version of Gareth McConnell's essay from 'Looking for Looking for Love,' a photobook documenting the 1980s nightlife in one of the UK's seaside nightclubs in Merseyside's. See a full gallery of photos from the book here.
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