Seventy years on … and still so happy together

Major Alan Barnes (96) and his wife Betty (91) were introduced by mutual friends at a West Park Pavilion party in 1946.

The couple were married six months later, on 28 May 1946, at St Saviour’s Church, enjoying their honeymoon in Looe, Cornwall.

The pair celebrated their platinum wedding anniversary at a tea party with family and friends.

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