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In an air raid shelter !! Linda

my dad worked with my older brother dad????? lynn x

My Dad was a bus conductor and he met my Mum when she was travelling on the bus to see Grandma in hospital. They adored each other and were married 54 years when Dad passed away. Mum is lost without him as she was only 17 when she met him. Susan xx

My parents met each other when they where both working at the same factory as each other, They married in 1974 but seperated not long after, But I have found my dad now after 32 years. Lisa

Like lots of others on here my parents met in the war. Dad was in the RAF and mum used to help to serve tea to servicemen at her church. She spent over 50 years pouring cups of tea out for him! Kate

My mum and dad were next door neighbours. she was 18 and was into dancing which she went every week with her elder sister.This was the late 1920.s when flapper dresses were all the rage. One Sunday she and her sister were washing both of their selections of dresses. one was washing them one was rinsing them and putting them on the line in the back garden.Mum went out to hang yet another dress and dad said over the garden fence,'not another one!' they got talking and he asked her out. She didnt turn up tho and he got the right Ump!! and wouldnt speak to her when they saw each other.Several weeks went past till they were both in the back gardens again and Mum said hello to him. he asked her why she didnt turn up and she said she thought he wasnt serious when he asked her out.. They arranged another date and that was that . they married on Christmas Day 1929 she was 20 and dad was 22. . They had 8 children altho they lost their first one aged 3 months. Dad passed in 1975 and Mum in 1980.

My mum was a nurse in the hospital in Worksop, Nottingham and my dad was a patient He was a paratrooper over Arnham and his plane was shot down, he had shrapnel wounds to both legs, he was kept underground by the dutch for 3 days then flown to the hospital to eventially meet my mum. Helen:)))))

my parents met at the local claggy mat... mum said she only married him... to save all the other woman a life of hell... ( she was joking) they are very happy but he was to skint to buy her a drink...

Like Sue's mum, my mum was a telephonist, but just for the GPO, in Southampton in 1946. Dad, who was based in Plymouth was on leave with my grandparents in the New Forest. He contacted the telephone exchange to get a number - and got mum. He kept on phoning her until she went out with him. She was 16, he was 20. They married when she was 17 and had their first child when she was 19. maggie

I hope you dont mind but i thought i would put the story of how my grandparents met too as its a nice story too. My nan ran away from home when she was 14 as her step father was abusive, she ran from Pembrokshire where she was born to Surrey and got a job as a kitchen maid in large house called Vale Lodge in Leatherhead. Working at the same house was my grampy who lived in the area he was the gardener. After a few years of knowing each other they started courting and after a few months on a day out to Epsom Downs racecourse which was just down the road gramp got down on one knee and propsed to nan which she accepted. They both gave up up their jobs and moved back to nans birthplace in Pembrokeshire where they married and had their children. They lived in the same street all their married life until they both passed away. Jax xx

Margaret, this is a lovely thread. So many nice stories, actually shedding tears here at Jax, Sue & Caz! :-))) My mum spotted my dad plaving village cricket (she was a scorer, lol!), and sent her friend over to ask him out. He said yes, then found out she was the schoolmarm's daughter & apparently said 'Flippin eck - I din't know she was Fanny Bramwell's girl!' x Jen

It was during the war when mum and dad met, dad was 19 and mum was 14, dad was based by some woods and his best mate was seeing my mums best mate, so mum went along just to make a foursome up so it was a blind date. Dad got sent to india with the army for 4 and half years and when he came home he was only home a week and they got married and have now been married 62 years now, mum is 83 and dad is 88. I asked mum what attracted her to dad was it his looks, no she said he had a big bar of chocolate lol.

Thanks for the replys, some really nice stories here. When mum and dad got married, mum had to leave the army as married women wer'nt allowed to serve. They ended up in Oswestry where I was born 11 months after they wed. Dad travelled the world and we all tagged on behind, packing up and moving on again every 2 years or so. A bit of a nomadic upbringing but I loved every moment of it. They finally settled in South Yorkshire where I moved to after my marriage broke down, in fact both my brother and sister moved here.

Reg, that's a shame. Funnily enough, altho I knew a little about when my parents met, I wasn't sure how, so I asked Mum after Dad had died. She was a Land Army Girl from Norwich, working near Cromer in 1945 and one night she was cycling back to her digs when a soldier on demob in Trunch, a little village near Cromer, whistled at her. Brazen hussy that she obviously was, my Mum must have stopped to talk to Dad, who came from Buckinghamshire, and they married six weeks later! Mum was 29 and Dad was 35. Mum had been engaged to a chap in Cromer but he died of tb at the start of the war. Dad had an understanding with a woman of the same Christian name as my Mum, in his home village so his family weren't too happy at hearing he had met someone else. They were relatively happy for 44 years - Dad died a few weeks after their 44th Wedding Anniversary, of Lung Cancer, aged 79 and Mum died 5 years later, just a few weeks after I asked her how they met. She was also aged 79.

I wish I knew................ Both of my parents had died by the time I was 15, and the subject had never arisen........... Reg

My parents first met near the railway track just outside Wimbledon Station when they were 14. My dad was trainspotting with a mate and my mum walked by with her friend and spoke a few words to each other. They didn't meet again for a few years and officially started going out when they were 17 but a few months later dad got called up on national service and they were parted again until he was demobbed in 1948. They finally got married in 1951 and have been happy together ever since. Carolyn

Mums boyfriend sent her to meet his brother off the train as he couldn't make it, They have never met, but fell in love (mum says with dads coppertop hair) dad says his personality. Jan x

My Mum and Dad first met when they were in the same infant class at school but it was 20 years later before they started courting. Mum called it off once because Dad was trying to be gallant during a flood and carry her across but he dropped her in the water They finally married when they were both 30 Bren

Mum was in the WAAF during the war, stationed in Gloucester. She and her friend met my Dad's brother, Howard, in town one night and he walked them back to camp. Mum's friend went out with Howard for a while, and they both met my Gran. Later on, Mum was billeted with my Gran and she eventually met my Dad, who was in the Royal Artillery.

thank you, some lovely stories here. Ann Glos