Lucky in LOVE

51 HAPPY YEARS

Sipping on my brew, round my neighbour’s house in July 2019, I stared down at the newspaper.

‘I could enter that,’ I said, while pointing at an advert on one of the pages.

‘The Beaverbrook’s Britain’s happiest couple competition?’ my neighbour asked. ‘Why don’t you?’

‘I haven’t got a computer to apply,’ I replied.

‘If you write it up, and I’ll copy it onto the computer for you,’ she said, encouragingly.

Thinking back to one Friday evening in 1960, I was 16 years old and working in a jeans making factory in Fleetwood, when everything began with my Barry.

I was invited to go and listen to some records with a group of youngsters my age.

Putting on my best dress, me