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Couple celebrate 60 years of wedded bliss

Their love affair started after a simple chat in a pub - but now William and Doris Grainger have celebrated 60 years of marriage.

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The diamond couple met at the Bluebrick pub in Brierley Hill and hit it off straight away.

More than 60 years on, Doris is now living in a care home as she has Alzheimers, but that doesn't stop her doting husband from visiting her every day.

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The couple celebrated their milestone anniversary with a small party at the Victoria Lodge Case Home before continuing the party at their daughter's house.

Doris and William celebrate with a cake

Christine Taylor said: "The care home organised a little family party for them at the home and then I took them back to mine where we had more of the family round.

"My mum loved a party and she was always the life and soul of the party."

Mr Grainger said: "We always used to spend so much time together. We would do absolutely everything together.

"Whether Doris wanted to go shopping or whatever, we would always do it together.

"I think that is our secret to being together for so long. I still go and see her in the home every single day."

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The pair got married at Dudley Registry Office on July 31, 1954, and had two children, Christine, 56, and Terry, who is 54.

Doris and William pictured at Dudley Register Office on their wedding day, July 31, 1954

The couple also have three grandchildren, Emma, 34, Stephen, 32 and Terry, 28, as well as two-year-old Oliver, who is their only great-grandchild.

Mr Grainger, who is 88, said he has fond memories of their lives together.

He said: "Looking back some of the best moment were with our friends. We had some lovely friends and over the years they get older and you lose them, but we had some really great times with our friends."

After coming out of the Army, where he served in the 11th Armoured Division, Mr Grainger worked in factories, as did his wife, who is now 86.

He said: "We both worked and we worked all sorts of jobs, from working in factories to machinery work."

Mrs Taylor said: "My father is really very good for his age but my mom worked extremely hard all her life; as a cleaner, on the buses, as an auxiliary nurse and in factories.

"When I needed to go back to work after having my children, she helped out so much. She would always be playing football and cricket with the children."

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