Tom Hill Youth Centre Gardener’s Ruby Wedding

May 1966

South Yorkshire Times, May 14, 1966

Ruby Wedding at Denaby.

Gardener at the Tom Hill Youth Centre, Denaby, Mr Wilfred Boyes, of 60, Firbeck Street Denaby, celebrated his ruby wedding anniversary on Saturday.

Mr Boyes (68) married Miss Connie Longbottom 40 years ago at Denaby Parish Church, and friends and relatives gathered at the Youth Centre to share in the anniversary party. Mrs Boyes, who had baked her own cake, received a dress ring from her husband, and she gave him a box of cigars.

The couple also received an electric toaster from their children, and a surprise gift – a bouquet of 40 red roses – from their grandchildren.

Mr Boyes worked at Cadeby colliery until 1934 and then moved to the Baker and Bessemer steelworks at Kilnhurst, where he remained until the works closed in 1963