Platinum celebration for couple
A PLATINUM wedding is such a rare event, many people might ask - how many years is that then?
Frank and Elsie Heywood
Holmbridge couple Frank and Elsie Heywood know exactly how long.
They have spent the past 70 years as man and wife.
Living with the same person for all that time is difficult to imagine for most of us.
Which makes the long and happy marriage of Frank, 92 and Elsie, 91, a doubly large achievement.
The couple, who live at Church View, were married at Holmbridge Church on December 16, 1933.
They had met as teenage sweethearts when they were both just 16.
Frank was working in a mill in Holmbridge and Elsie was visiting an aunt who lived at nearby Ramsden.
Elsie, who lived in Royston near Barnsley at the time, said: "My aunt had a baby and I would push the pram down to a sweet shop, opposite the mill, to meet my uncle.
"One day my husband's friend from the mill came to the shop and went back to the factory saying he had seen this girl, which was me.
"My husband later came in to the shop and that was it from then on."
