Our last customers of the day had tea in the garden with their children.
They were celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary.
Sixty years ago today, when she was twenty and he twenty-one, they tied the knot in Worcester. Her parents had had to sign permission forms so that she might marry before she was 21.
I asked what else they were doing to celebrate?
They told me that at the weekend all their family will be getting together for a meal.
He will be wearing his wedding shirt.
A shirt she gave him for his twenty-first birthday.
A white shirt she paid a week's wages for.
The first nylon shirt either of them had ever owned.
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