Everything's still ship-shape for us after sixty years together!

Couple commemorate ferry engagement

- by MEGAN BANNER

A COUPLE who are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary "back where it all started" have shared their secrets to a long and happy marriage.

Nora Platt, 80, and Allan Platt, 81, got engaged on the Daffodil when it ran as a Mersey Ferry, and they returned to the ship yesterday to celebrate 60 years of happy marriage.

The couple's love story began when they were children on the recreation ground in Prescot, where they grew up. Allan, who now lives in Rainhill with Nora, told the ECHO about the first time he set eyes on his wife.

He said: "When I first met Nora she was 14 and I was 15. It was originally my friend who I went to ask Nora out for.

"We were there on our bikes and these two girls came towards us, it was Nora and her mate, and my mate said 'go and ask them girls if they will have a date with us! So I did, I went up and asked if they'd want to go on a date with us one night. They said yes, but we never saw them again."