Hi Suey,
I think we have talked about Sumners on the old forum, I worked in the cocktail bar at the back from 1974 - 1978. I knew Paul very well he married Penny, a lovely girl who came to work there. They moved away after getting married. I saw them when they came back for a visit and they had a little baby in tow. Mrs Bleakley was lovely and always very fair, I also got on very well with Richard and David.
They were the best four years of my working life, no two days were the same. I went back to work there after my children were older, and was there on the last day before closing down. It was Christmas eve, I think in 1989. All the staff were having a Christmas drink together after closing but it was sad to think that was the end of Sumners.