Sweethearts renew their vows for golden wedding anniversary (From Warrington Guardian)

Sweethearts renew their vows for golden wedding anniversary

SWEET sixteen with striking red locks, Margaret Gibson was 17-year-old George Chadwick's dream girl.

And when he plucked up the courage to ask her to dance 53 years ago at the Bell Hall on Orford Lane, so began a whirlwind romance.

The couple, from Birtles Road, Orford, started courting and three years later married at St Margaret and All Hallows Church in Orford Green when George, now 70, returned from the Army.

They went on to have three children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and share fond memories of their wonderful marriage.

The couple pledged their love for each other a second time last week to mark their golden wedding anniversary.

They are still so much in love that they decided a fitting way to mark their anniversary would be to renew their wedding vows at the same church they were married followed by a reception with family and friends.

Margaret said: "Once I met George I didn't want anyone else, so we knew that once he got back from the Army we'd get married.

"We wrote to each other every day and that kept our romance alive.

"Our feelings haven't changed over the years, we still feel the same about each other as we did then.

"We've been through the rough and the smooth together and it's made us even closer."