A COUPLE who met at St Giles’ Fair in Oxford have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.
Win and Morris Bristow married 60 years ago and put the secret of their success down to give and take.
Mrs Bristow, 83, was brought up in Kidlington and Mr Bristow, 82, was brought up in nearby Charlton-on-Otmoor.
Mrs Bristow, nee Adams, said: “We met each other at St Giles’ Fair in September 1947. I rather followed him around the fair I think.”
They hit it off and Mr Bristow, who was in the army at the time, was so late back to his barracks in Cowley that he had to climb the wall to get in.
Mr Bristow wrote to her during his postings, in North Wales and Folkestone, and the couple continued to see each other after he left the army in 1949.
On March 26, 1952, they married at a snowy St Mary’s Church in Kidlington. After leaving the army, Mr Bristow worked as an electrician at A Malins, a car electrical firm in Oxford, and he stayed at the firm until his retirement in 1994.
Mrs Bristow worked at the Co-operative store in Kidlington until the birth of their only child, Christine, in 1954.
In 1966 the young family moved into their first house together – which they still live in to this day – in Waverely Avenue in Kidlington.
Mrs Bristow said: “We have had a wonderful life together.
“The secret of our success is just give and take really.”
Asked what her fondest memory had been from the last 60 years, Mrs Bristow said: “Our daughter and our family.”
The couple have two grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
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