A LIVELY Bromsgrove couple danced the night away when they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in style.

Albert and Pauline Giles, of Durham Close, marked 50 happy years of marriage when they celebrated with more than 100 guests at the DDS&S Club, in Stourbridge Road.

The devoted Sidemoor couple met through mutual friends at the tender age of 15 and their budding romance led them up the aisle of Christ Church, Stourbridge Road, Catshill, on June 1, 1952.

The blushing bride chose her sister, Audrey, two friends, Jean and Audrey and Albert's sister Evelyn as her bridesmaids.

Pauline said: "In those days we had to ask our parents permission to marry each other. His father said we could on the condition we lived with them."

After a postponed honeymoon spent in Winchester, the couple, who are now both aged 70, settled in with Albert's parents for 18 months in Catshill before moving into their first home in Melbourne Avenue.

They brought up three children, Steven, Karen and Cheryl, while Albert served as an inspector at Garringtons, in Sherwood Road, Aston Fields, and they eventually settled in Sidemoor in 1969.

The happy grandmother-of-seven said: "The secret of a long and successful marriage is to always take each other into consideration."