Blackburn couple celebrate golden wedding with hospice fundraiser

7:00am Thursday 25th October 2012 in News

Michael and Barbara Perkins today, and on their wedding day 50 years ago Michael and Barbara Perkins today, and on their wedding day 50 years ago

A BLACKBURN couple celebrated 50 golden years by raising money for a children’s hospice.

Blackburn Council playworker Barbara Perkins, 69, and her husband Michael, who drives a schoolbus at Oakhill School in Whalley, met in 1959 at a St Mary’s College school leavers event.

The couple, who have two children and four grandchildren, marked their anniversary with a celebration at their East Lancashire Road home.

The party with family on friends saw £350 raised for Derian House Children’s Hospice when the couple asked for donations instead of gifts.

Michael said: “It was a Saturday, the same day we were married because your 50-year anniversary always falls on the same day. It comes full circle.

“We have everything we could want so we just wanted people’s company and a little donation for charity.”

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