Corks were popping at the weekend as a Cleland couple celebrated 60 years of married life.John and Grace Reid celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary with a sparkling family party at Wishaw Golf Club and raised £1000 for charity at the same time.The loving couple met early in 1962 while both were working in Cleland Hospital, John was an electrician there while Grace worked in the laundry.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.Head to the App Store and never miss a beat in Lanarkshire - iOS - Android Grace, who was 24,and John 27 at the time, are both born and bred in the village and went to the same school - Cleland Primary.Now aged 84 and 87 respectively, they married in Cleland Church on September 29 that year following a relatively short courtship.The hospital was to provide the backdrop to their early days together as they began married life within a stone’s throw of it.“We met in the January and got married in September,” Grace recalled. “John already had his own house in Langbyres Road, off Bellside Road so that was our first home together.”When they did eventually decide to move house they didn’t venture too far, just half a mile away to Nith Path.In 1977 they moved back to within yards of their first marital home, to Bellside Road, where they remain until this day.The couple went on to have three children, two girls Lorraine and Lynne, who are now 58 and 56
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