A COUPLE whose love has kept on rising after meeting at a Bicester bakery are celebrating 60 years of marriage today.

June and Wally Kelly both worked for Lanes Bakery, which used to be on the corner of Sheep Street and Wesley Lane, but it took a number of years for love to blossom.

Eventually Mr Kelly, of Maud Close, Bicester, plucked up the courage to ask the then June Jones out for a date.

The couple got engaged in November 1951 and married at St Mary’s Church, Launton, on March 29, 1952, Easter Sunday.

Mr Kelly, 85, was originally from London, but moved with his family moved to Bicester after their home were bombed during the war.

He served in the Royal Navy aboard HMS Patroller during the latter part of the Second World War.

After the war he worked at the bakery before taking up a job in the paint shop at the Morris Motors, Cowley, and later a storeman at Bicester Storage and Distribution Centre.

Mrs Kelly, 82, was the oldest of 13 children and lived in Bicester all her life, and was the former manager at Bicester Bakery, in Sheep Street, where she worked for 20 years.

The couple had one daughter, Linda Smith, who is married to Dave and have two grandchildren, Louise and Mark, and will become great grandparents next month when Louise’s baby is due.

Asked the secret of a long and happy marriage, Mr and Mrs Kelly said: “The secret of a long and happy life together is never go to bed on an argument, be good to each other and share everything.”

The couple celebrated their anniversary with family and friends at a lunch at the Littlebury Hotel last Sunday.