A couple who first met at a village dance are celebrating 50 years of marriage.
Kenneth Savin said it was love at first sight when he met his wife-to-be Cynthia Green, at a dance at the village hall in her home village of Cassington, near Oxford.
The couple were married five years later and celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Saturday.
But Mr and Mrs Savin, of Meadow Prospect, Wolvercote, Oxford, admit married life has not always been easy.
On the morning of their wedding at St Peter's Church, Cassington, Mr Savin received his national service call-up papers. The first two years of their married life were spent apart, while Mr Savin served with the RAF at Morton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire.
Mr Savin, 71, a retired electrical fitter, said: "Unfortunately as soon as we were married, I was called up. However, Morton wasn't that far away, and by the time I came out we had a baby daughter."
The couple have two children, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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