SIXTY-FIVE years after they met as 16 year-olds working at Leigh cable works, great-grandparents Len and Ada Farrington celebrated their diamond wedding.
Married in wartime -- April 3, 1943 -- at Leigh Parish Church and with an £8 wedding budget which meant Ada had to wear a borrowed bridal outfit, they then went to watch a Wings for Victory parade.
"Our wedding cake was a chocolate one," recalled Mrs Farrington, aged 81, who worked at BICC until the birth of her daughter Christine.
Len, 80, served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War including three years in India. He joined Lancashire United Transport and worked 47 years on buses as a fitter then senior workshop foreman.
The duo have lived for 55 years in their Wigan Road home in Leigh.
"We were the first tenants and we like it here. We have had some good neighbours," said Mrs Farrington.
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