Your top memories of those Bentley’s Sunday teen nights
YOUR MEMORIES OF ONE NIGHTCLUB’S SUNDAY NIGHTS FOR TEENS ... THOUSANDS OF YOU TOOK AN INTEREST
“Eurasia and Nell & Kim ? :/.”
Paul Sutherland reminisced: “We use to get a minibus thru from Durham on a Sunday night 1986/87.”
Joanne Bowen said: “My hangout, loved it...16 at teen night on a Sunday.”
Joanne Coates remembered: “Watched the Hit man and Her there live” and Tracey Stewart said: “Loved Bentleys went 4 times a week.”
Rachelle Preshaw said: “Great memories” while Sue Buckle said: “These were fab nights!”
Louise Stephenson said she wished she could go back to those days for just one night while Rayna Dickinson said: “Amazing time.”
Another person who loved the reminder of times gone by was Carla Jane Conley Cuthbertson who said: “Best nights ever.”
Thanks also to Yvonne Laffertey who remembered: “Used to love it in there. Even met Nick Kamen in there, the guy who used to do the 501 advert.”
Bev Taylor said she “never dared” go to the teenage nights but Bentley’s was her “favourite place when I finally became a grown-up.”
Janet Ayre Smith said: “We had some great nights” while Wendy Christie described those days as “brilliant nights them ladies if only we could do it again memories we will treasure xx.”
The great thing for the young clubgoers was Bentley’s choice of facilities.
There were two dance floors, two choices of music, a bistro selling hamburgers, a choice of bars with a huge range of non-alcoholic drinks.
The Echo reporter who went along in the 1980s described it as “the ultimate in sophistication”.
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