Darlington is blessed with lots of brilliant pubs and bars - and plenty of the town's historic institutions are still popular watering holes.
However, there are numerous venues that are no longer around that residents miss dearly.
The Northern Echo has pieced together five venues that have been demolished, replaced, or gone bust - with some historic pictures to go alongside.
The Nag's Head
The Nag’s Head in Tubwell Row, complete with an apostrophe in the correct place, in 1970. The back of this picture claims that the Nag’s was the oldest pub in the town, but it was demolished and rebuilt without any of the style of the old building. It is now operating as the Joseph Pease.
The rebuilt Nag’s Head in 1998.
The Raby Hotel
The Raby Hotel, on Tubwell Row, became the Pied Piper in 1985, but was demolished in 1988.
The Old Coaching Inn
The Old Coaching Inn in Houndgate in April 1974 - before the year was out, this pub in Houndgate had changed its name to The Olde Tavern in the Towne.
The Old Coaching Inn in Houndgate in April 1974.
The Alexandre Hotel
The inside of the Alexandre Hotel in 1972 when the landlords, Mr and Mrs D Wilson were showing their whippets to the camera. Thought to be in the Rise Carr area, based on The Northern Echo's archives.
The Burns Inn
The Burns Inn was dedicated to the haggis-addressing poet. It opened in 1832 and closed in 1972. Soon after it was demolished, but it was on the junction of Northgate and Kendrew Street and so is beneath Northgate House.
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The Coachman Hotel
The Coachman Hotel closed in 2005, a remarkably grand-looking, late Victorian railway hotel. It was at the top of Victoria Road beside the official front entrance to Bank Top station - presumably, it was built to compliment the opening of the station in 1887.
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