A couple who met when they were young teenagers working at Salts Mill celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary last Thursday.

Childhood sweethearts Sydney and Ethel Moore, who have lived in Thwaites Brow for about 12 years, celebrated 60 years of marriage.

The couple met while working at Salts Mill when Ethel was 14 and Sydney was 15.

They married on April 12, 1941, when Ethel was 18 and Sydney was 19.

Ethel says: "We have a picture of the mill up in our lounge. We got married at the old Providence Methodist Church, on Otley Road, in Shipley.

"Because of the war, the caterers couldn't get the icing so we had a chocolate cake instead of a wedding cake."

Sydney went on to train as a slater and was not called to war because of his roofing skills, but volunteered to serve his country and was away for five years spending his final year in Palestine.

Ethel says: "It was five years wasted but we made up for it." Ethel continued to work in the mill after they were married but went on to train as a nurse and worked at the Victoria and Bingley hospitals.

Sydney and Ethel have two children, Michael, who lives in Cullingworth, and Ann, from Long Lee.

Michael has two children, Nicola and Janice, and Ann has a son, Abram, and daughter, Claire.

The diamond couple have four great-grandchildren with one on the way.

The family met on Easter Sunday to celebrate Sydney and Ethel's anniversary with a cake featuring Blackpool Tower, where they spent their honeymoon.