Couple celebrate golden wedding anniversary

8:20am Tuesday 13th November 2007

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A COUPLE first united by the misspelling of a name are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary.

Brenda Kislingbury was secretary of the Winterbourne Young Conservatives Group when she misspelled member Brian's name incorrectly in 1952.

Picking Brenda up on the error, Brian soon asked her out on a date and the couple married five years later on November 9, 1957.

Fifty years on Brian, aged 79, and Brenda, aged 80, are still together and living in the same home in Filton Road, Hambrook, they bought just after their wedding day.

They celebrated the anniversary with a party with more than 60 family members, including their three sons and seven grandchildren, at the nearby Holiday Inn hotel last Saturday.

Brian worked as a metallurgist at Bristol Aero Engines factory in Patchway, now owned by Rolls Royce.

He is a keen sportsman who played for Frampton Cotterell cricket club and Iron Acton football team. He still plays golf at Chipping Sodbury.

Brenda was a matron secretary at Frenchay Hospital after the war and later became secretary at Hambrook Primary School for 23 years.

The former Chipping Sodbury Grammar School pupil is also a founder member of Hambrook WI.

Brian said: "If we're happy with something we never change, it's probably why we're still together and in the same home we first moved into.

"Hambrook has changed massively in our life time here. It ís the same strong community here but more roads and people!

"We have many fond memories of our marriage and both still look forward to our future."