Dundee couple Chris and Betty Barry who met while working at a former battery factory in the city have been toasting their platinum wedding anniversary.
They celebrated their platinum wedding anniversary on Monday.
The couple, who are both aged 90, marked the special milestone at the weekend when they enjoyed a meal with family at Beiderbeckes Bistro.
They also received a special visit this week from Dundee Lord Provost Bill Campbell.
Chris and Betty first met in 1950 when they worked at Vidor-Burndept, a battery manufacturing plant which used to be based at West Kingsway Industrial Estate.
They courted for two years before tying the knot at St Mary’s Lochee and initially lived together on Lochee Road.
Chris is originally from Lochee Road while Betty is from Beechwood.
They both attended St Mary’s Lochee Primary and St John’s RC High School.
Betty worked at Vidor-Burndept before she got married and then worked at nights in the Dundee’s Timex factory when their children were young.
She then spent over a decade working at Veeder Root before retiring from there at the age of 60.
She then went on to do various cleaning jobs for organisations like Dundee University before officially retiring from work aged 65.
After working at Vidor-Burndept, Chris was employed as an auto-setter at NCR Dundee before securing a job in a similar line of work at the Veeder Root factory.
In the last few years before he retired at the age of 67, Chris worked as a porter at Ninewells Hospital.
In 1961 the couple moved to Menzieshill. They were one of the first families to do so and are the only remaining original residents.
Chris and Betty, who particularly enjoyed going on family holidays to Blackpool when they were younger and later on to countries like Cyprus, have four children – Andrew, Catherine, Christopher and Stephen, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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