Kevin wanted to dance at the re-opened venue where he met his wife in 1949.
By Caroline LowbridgeA 95-year-old RAF veteran was the first person on the dancefloor when a nightclub reopened after more than a decade.
Kevin Topham was adamant he wanted to go to the Nottinghamshire club, as he remembered dancing at the venue in the 1940s and also met his late wife there.But he still would not be deterred, so she arranged for him to go an hour before it opened to the general public."I said 'Kevin, it will be nothing like it was in 1949. There will be booming music and strobe lighting, and it will be full of 18 to 30-year-olds'.
"I thought if I didn't take him he's probably going to get in his car and go, which I didn't want him to do, so I had to make sure he was safe."Kevin used to dance at the venue in Newark when it was simply known as the Corn Exchange, but it reopened on Saturday as Club X."It was just so humbling and it melted my heart, because it made him happy," said Donna.
"Every time we go past there - if I'm taking him to a doctor's appointment or his daughter's - he says 'I used to go there'," said Donna. "He told me 'I used to go there and all the Americans would come and pinch our women, and there would be fighting'.""Sometimes I would end up with three partners in the middle of the dancefloor," said Kevin, who remembered having to flip a coin to choose between them.Kevin, who lives in the village of Edingley, said he joined the RAF when he was only 17, as "the Germans were bombing the Newark area and I got fed up with it".
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