JANET Borman will never forget the day her fiancé Denis popped the question.
She was serving in the ATS at the time and had just arrived home for a spot of well-deserved leave when he suddenly met her at the station and asked her to marry him.
Nothing unusual in that, you might think, except that the duo who now live in Park Lane, Hartford, had been separated for five years by the war.
Mr Borman had served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Greece when the Germans invaded and he was taken prisoner. He spent the next four years in a Bavarian PoW camp.
'I knew he had been released but I didn't know he was already home and then suddenly there he was on the station platform waiting to meet me,' said Janet.
'It was marvellous. He asked me how long I was home for and when I said 10 days he said let's get married. And we did. I managed to get some extra leave and in three weeks we were married by special licence, it was a bit like a shotgun wedding.'
They have been happily married for 60 years and plan to celebrate their diamond anniversary with a huge get together for family and friends at the Oaklands Hotel, Gorstage, next week.
Denis is a member of Northwich Probus and Janet is member of Hartford WI and the Wednesday Club.
