Wedding – Lumb & Welch (picture)

September 1958

South Yorkshire Times September 20, 1958

 The marriage took place at the Parish Church on Saturday,  of a member of a former well known Conisbrough family who were partners with Appleyard’s of Conisbrough in the haulage business of Appleyard and Lumb.

She is Miss Margaret Lumb, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Lumb of Sheffield Road, Warmsworth who married Mr. John S. Welch, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Welch, of Preston Avenue, North Shields.

The bride, given away by her father, wore white brocade and a headdress of white gardenias. She carried pink roses, lilies of the valley and stephanotis and was attended by Misses Jennie and Molly Lumb and Carol and Patricia Walters, all of whom wore white and blue flocked nylon and carried lilies of the valley, stephanotis and pink roses.

The best man was Mr. Hugh Welch and the groomsmen were Mr William Lumb (sen.) and Mr William Lumb (jun.).

A reception was held at Ivanhoe Hotel, Sprotborough and the honeymoon is being spent on the Norfolk Broads.

The bride until recently was member of the Weybridge Ladies’ Amateur Rowing Club and has rowed in the Serpentine Regatta and in France in competitions.

The bridegroom, who he’s a shipbuilding draughtsman, is a member of the Tynemouth Rowing Club.

The bride is also a member of the Desborough players, an amateur theatrical Society Weybridge. Her father is the sub- postmaster at Warmsworth