JUST days after the Second World War was declared officially over - Violet and Clarence Richardson tied the knot.
The couple, of Athersley South, mark their 70th wedding anniversary on Tuesday and will be celebrating the platinum occasion with their family.
Clarence, 88, and Violet, 90, were married at Barnsley Register Office on May 19, in a service that cost 37-and-a-half pence, after meeting in the Savoy cinema, Lundwood.
Clarence, who went on to become a projectionist at the Savoy, remembers the day he met the love of his life in the cinema aisles and how he used his inimitable charm to reel in his future wife. He was 18 and she was 20.
"She was beautiful and is as beautiful now as when I first met her. We started courting straight away," he said.
The couple, who have lived at their Wingfield Road home since 1957 and went on to have eight children, 18 grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren, said it takes a lot of love and hard graft to make a marriage last so long.
