Wartime romance led to 70 years of marriage

Working at their machines in a wartime factory led to romance for a couple who celebrated their platinum wedding anniversary last week.

Arthur and Peggy Morgan married at St Mary's Church in Farnham Royal exactly 70 years ago. They had met while completing war work at Satchwells in Farnham Road. Arthur was from the Rhondda Valley, Peggy from County Armagh in Northern Ireland. They had come to Slough to work during the war.

Arthur said: "We both worked on the machines and that's when I started chatting her up.

"I didn't even know her real name was Sophie for some time. I just called her Peggy because all her friends did."

It was a modest wedding as food was scarce.

Then the couple moved to Rhondda Valley, Arthur's home territory. He went down the mines - one of the many 'Bevan' boys sent to do this to keep vital supplies of coal coming.

Arthur, now 91 and Peggy, 94,  returned to Slough after the war and never left again.

They lived in Priory Road, Burnham before moving to the Oak House care home in Wexham Road.

They have a son Eric, daughter Colleen, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

So it was quite a party on Friday, thanks to the Oak House's hostess Lynne Cresdee. There was a cake and the room was fully decorated as the different generations of Arthur and Peggy's family mixed.

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