A COUPLE who met as teenagers have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.
Marjorie and Norman Howard, from Callands, marked their 60 years of marriage on Thursday with a telegram from Buckingham Palace and a party with their family.
The pair married on March 22, 1958 after meeting at a fairground in Huyton in 1952.
Marjorie was aged 14 and Norman 16 when they first met.
After their initial meeting at the fair, Marjorie and Norman didn’t see each other for two years but have never been apart since.
In 1970, the couple moved to Great Sankey where they lived until three out of their four children had married and left home.
The pair then moved to Callands in 1989 and have lived there since.
Today, Friday, Marjorie celebrates her 80th birthday.
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