Couple who met as wartime re-enactors have had to cancel their wedding on VE Day - but they have big plans for a lockdown 'doorstep party' with neighbours

10.07.2020 - 23:14

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It's not every couple who can say they met on the 'battlefield' - but it was Glenise and Ken's passion for wartime re-enactment that brought them together.

Glenise Walton, 71, and Ken Taylor, 79, from Oldham first crossed paths at the Yanks event at Upper Mill 15-years-ago. Such is their devotion to honouring the heroes of the Second World War, they were due to get married on Friday to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day - when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces on May 8, 1945.

With a full 1940s theme, they had hired military vehicles and all 180 guests at Chadderton Town Hall were to donwartime uniform or civilian dress, with Churchill-era music to be played at the reception.

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Couple who met as wartime re-enactors have had to cancel their wedding on VE Day - but they have big plans for a lockdown 'doorstep party' with neighbours

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