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A chance meeting on Scarborough seafront began Douglas and Nancy Walker’s 60-year relationship
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Words & photo Nancy wondered by Dave Barry how to make it a A COUPLE who lived foursome. Casting 10 minutes from each around, she grasped other in Glasgow met the nettle, went to for the first time on Douglas’s house and Scarborough beach asked him to go out 60 years ago. with her. In the intervening “He was shy but he decades, the town agreed, if I'd go to a has become Douglas do at the McEwans and Nancy Walker’s dance school the second home as they night before”, Nancy have been back once, recalls. “That was twice or thrice every how it started”. year since. When the couple When they met, on were married in 1962, 18 July 1957, they Nancy had to resign were both on holiday, from the police as in Douglas with two those days married aunts and an uncle, women weren’t Nancy with a friend. allowed in the force. Nancy spotted She had previously Douglas’s uncle taught sewing Archie, who she and resumed this knew from church. profession. They fell into Douglas was an conversation and a engineer at Buchanan photo was taken by Brothers, who made Douglas and Nancy Walker one of the aunts. scientific instruments A few months later, Nancy, a police constable, was for the navy. They had two daughters, Alison Clough invited to the YMCA Christmas dance by a friend who and Audrey Gilbride, who live in Glasgow, and a son, wanted to bring her boyfriend. David, who lives in Leeds. They have six grandchildren aged 12-20. Continued on p2.
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