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Cliff’s Bio - Wedding!
She wore this “for ever”, long after we
were married. However, it appears to have been lost in the perhaps “house
transfers” during our time together. We decided to get married when I was
twenty-one.
Barbara was then twenty and, would you
believe it, she had to get permission from her father in order for us to get
married. We got married at Middlewich Church in the Town centre and paid for
everything to do with the wedding, except the wedding cake, which was purchased
by Maimie. We had our wedding reception at the ICI Club in Brooks Lane and left
to go away on our honeymoon to “Grange-Over-Sands” in the Lake District.
(This was because a man working for Westinghouse had a boarding house there and
we got it on the cheap, as he knew me). We went to Grange-Over-Sands by train
from Crewe, changing at a station on the way. The weather on our wedding day was
a typical March day, cold, wet and windy. When we finally arrived at the station
at Grange it was about 10.00 PM and we were picked up at the railway station. By
this time the weather had got much worse and snow had fallen to a depth of some
6\8 inches, not that this mattered. We were now at last married, on our own for
a week, and looking forward to moving into our “spanking new house”, which
had just been built by Mr Chris Earl on Hayhurst Avenue, Middlewich Cheshire.
(Incidentally, the house had been built exactly over the spot where we had
played football some years before, as boys). Now we could start our married
life, just as we had wanted to for it seemed, such a long time.
31st March 1962. The "Wedding
Day".
The deed is done.
The wedding crowd. We paid for the whole
thing.
One side of the reception hall at ICI club.
How happy we were then and now. We did NOT
stay too long at the reception!
Wedding presents at 6 Cross Lane.
Bliss or was it !!! I was to have one of the
first and perhaps the biggest “jolt’s” of my life just a few days hence.
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