St Lawrence residents Peter and Lucille Blampied (née Stephan) first met at the Regents School of Dancing in Georgetown when they were teenagers, and married around four years later on 6 April 1957 at St Thomas’ Church.
Describing their first encounter during a dance, Mr Blampied (84) said: ‘They paired people up at the dance school and I ended up getting paired up with her.
‘We got talking and she told me that she lived in St Saviour, I did too so we walked home together and chatted the whole way. It just carried on from there for the next 60 years.’
According to Mr Blampied, who worked as a traffic officer for more than 30 years at the Motor Traffic Office – now known as DVS – the proposal was rather straightforward. He popped the question while the pair sat in a car park in his black Austin Ten.
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