Manchester couple celebrate 73rd wedding anniversary

Trudy, 97, and Barclay Patoir, 96, who was an apprentice engineer in British Guiana, met when he was put to work at a factory in Speke, Merseyside.

Trudy was his assistant on the production line.

Despite opposition to the union, they married and moved to a new house on an estate in Wythenshawe, Manchester, where they have been ever since.

They have two daughters, three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.