'No regrets from either of us!' Couple shares key to successful marriage following 70th anniversary
A couple who are celebrating their platinum anniversary have told the Express and Star their secret to everlasting love.
Edna and Bill Salt, 89 and 91, of Edinburgh Avenue, Walsall, have celebrated a whopping 70 years of marriage together in a poignant gathering attended by friends and families.
The loving couple first met by chance in 1951 when Bill spied Edna from across the street and sent his friend to ask if she would write to him while he was away in the army.
Two years later the couple were happily married on the 25th of July, 1953 the couple were happily married in St Laurence's Church, Darlaston.
Edna said: "We first met when I was 17 and I think Bill was 19, It was really funny. He was in the army at the time, I was standing over the street from him and he sent his friend to ask me if I would write to him.
