A couple from Falmouth who met over 60 years ago on the bus from Penryn have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.

David and June Hull, of Conway Road, thanked family and friends for organising a party at the Royal Duchy Hotel to mark 60 years of marriage, and for their generous gifts, having raised £100 on the day for a charity supporting people with epilepsy.

The couple’s three children, Gillian, Jacqueline, and Peter, and four of their six grandchildren, organised an event including balloons and a cake in the colours of June’s bridesmaids’ dresses from 1955 and they were also presented with a book documenting their marriage.

June, 80, said: “We just want to say thank you to people. When we had our 50th we sent [money from gifts] to the Air Ambulance.

“We’ve got a granddaughter who suffers from epilepsy, so this time we wanted to do it for her.”

The couple met when June was working on the Penryn to Falmouth buses in the early 1950s, and David was a butcher at Dunning’s on Arwenack Street.

David, 82, said: “I saw you on the bus, and a couple of friends of mine knew you and your family, and I asked where I could |find you.

“You used to go down to the Anchor Hotel in Penryn and I went there and everything snowballed from there.”June worked in the Home and Colonial store on Market Street, and David used to call in to see her on his way to deliver meat to St Mawes via the ferry from Prince of Wales Pier.

Penryn-born June worked in Falmouth for most of her life as a cleaner, first for SWEB and then for several surgeries including Trescobeas, while David worked for a succession of butchers, including Dunning’s, Eastman’s and Pitt’s, as well as spending some time as a fireman on the tugs in Falmouth harbour.

When asked about the secret to a long marriage, David said: “We just got on with life. We’ve had our ups and downs, but you just give and take.”

June added: “We worked, and bought a car, and took the children out. We were always in with our children.”

The couple’s daughter Jackie Williams sent the money from the anniversary to the charity Epilepsy Action, a national organisation which provides support for all those affected by the condition, and the family said it hopes the money will be used to help patients in Cornwall.

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