A COUPLE celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary are still sparkling after 60 years of marriage.
Little Sutton-born Maeve and Pete Shaw, from Stanlow, both 81, are marking their milestone with a celebration with family and friends in Ellesmere Port.
The couple lived there for most of their young adult life before moving to Worthing, Sussex.
Maeve and Pete, who between them have three sons, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, met at the Good Companions Youth Club in Hooton, where Pete claims Maeve deliberately turned off her bicycle light in order to get his attention on the way home.
Shortly afterwards they were married at St Paul’s Church in Hooton.
The pair credit their long and happy marriage with ‘letting the woman wear the trousers’.
Pete, who used to work for Shell, said: “Just obey her and let her have her way, that’s the way to do it.”
With most of their relatives still living in Ellesmere Port, Pete and Maeve have never lost sight of their hometown and make regular trips back.
Close family friend Lesley Fletcher, who goes on holiday to Tenerife every year with the Shaws, said: “They are such good fun, they may both be 81 but they stay out until after midnight, later than all of us!
“You can tell they are still as much in love with each other as they were at the beginning.
“When Pete talks about Maeve he still sees that young girl he fell in love with all those years ago.”
