used to love the Top Rank as a bus ride away from Fenton and remember clearly being in a car with Andy Hanley, Tony Jebb and Ian Levine and my friend Jayne Steele tearing up the M6 about 10.30 so the DJs could finish the night in Blackpool Mecca. Another time I was chatting away with Dave Brennan and Mickey Colley and a partition fell on me dislocating my shoulder - got free entry to the Rank plus guest for the next year after threatening to sue the management!!! Think most people from Stoke and surrounding areas used to go, Bob McNicol, Phil Morgan, Kenny Proctor, Nogger, Paul Morris, Andrea and Janine Conti, Jed Skelley and the Newcastle lads and it was great to see people like Alex and Carole from newton le Willows. Anyone from Stoke remember the ABC Cinebowl? and the likes of Mickey Stubbs, Kevin Beardsley,Mickey Flynn - think Mickey Stubb's auntie used to work in the cafe there and we used to get free burgers and milkshakes - I used to skive off school when I was about 14/15 (1969-70)and hang out there with the boys!! This was what they turned into the Steam Machine!!!