A COUPLE who met on a caravan holiday in their teens are still hitched a half century later.
On October 21, Henry and Anne Blakeley, of Wakefield Road, Lepton, celebrated their golden wedding before heading off for a weekend in their caravan at Skirlington on Yorkshire’s east coast.
Henry, 72, and Anne, 71, met when young Henry was on a caravan holiday with his family in Knaresborough. Anne and her family lived in the town.
The couple were married at Trinity Church, Knaresborough, and moved to Batley, where Henry was living and working as a fireman on the railways.
He later went on to work as a blacksmith, shoeing horses around the district. For a time he worked as a farrier at the National Coal Mining Museum.
Henry and Anne have four children, Shaun, Tracey, Karen and Joanne, and nine grandchildren. They celebrated their golden wedding with a family meal at The Grange at Grange Moor and a meal with friends in Skirlington.
