DIAMOND wedding couple Bill and Peggy Richardson celebrated 60 years together at the weekend.
They first in London's Hyde Park, in 1937, when they both independently went to the capital to find work, from their native Stanley.
They were married in Stanley on September 27, 1941, and celebrate six decades together today. Family members from Scotland and the south came to their home in Broomhill, Stanley, to mark the occasion.
Mr Richardson, 81, saw action with the 17/21st Lancers at the Normandy landings, in 1944, and went on to work at the Beamish Mary pit, and Dunlops.
Mrs Richardson, 80, has worked in the Barnardo's charity shop, in Stanley's Front Street, for the past 20 years.
They have one son, several grandchildren and one great-grandchild
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