A COUPLE in Prestatyn are marking 60 happy years of marriage today (April 5).

Geraint and Mena Griffith, aged 92 and 85 respectively, are both retired teachers, with Geraint hailing from Deganwy and Mena from Rhondda Valley, Glamorgan.

They met at an education conference in roughly 1960, before marrying at Capel Mawr, Denbigh on April 5, 1963, where they were greeted by a tunnel of hockey sticks from children at Mena’s school outside the chapel after the wedding.

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Mena taught at Denbigh Grammar School, and Geraint at Holywell Grammar School, and the couple now have two daughters and four grandchildren.

To celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary, they will be having at Bod Erw Restaurant in St Asaph, formerly the site of the first flat they moved into together.

The couple are also members of Rehoboth Presbyterian Chapel, Prestatyn.

Mena said: “We were both at Aberystwyth University, but not at the same time. We met when we took a party of schoolchildren each to an education conference in about 1960.

“When we met at that conference, I recognised him from a football team photo that my brother had brought home from Aberystwyth University.

“Geraint was captain of the team, so I went to talk to him at the conference, and then we met up again.

“He’s very sporty - he was captain of the football team at Aberystwyth, and has played crown green bowls for Wales!

“We started life together in a flat in Bod Erw; we had one of the upstairs apartments, with a bay window. Now that it’s a restaurant, we’ve decided to go back there tonight for a meal.”