Barbara and Len mark 70th wedding anniversary
THEY ARE STILL TOGETHER IN SAME NURSING HOME
A DERBYSHIRE couple have celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary in the care home they reside in together.
Former Ashbourne publicans Len and Barbara Stork toasted their platinum anniversary with cake and cards, including a message from the Queen.
Staff at Ashbourne Lodge, in Derby Road, helped them to mark the milestone in style, by providing balloons and banners.
Len, 93, was born in Driffield, East Riding, and Barbara, also 93, was born in Belper - the town where they tied the knot in 1951.
After suffering a stroke at the age of 19 while in the Parachute Regiment, Len fell in love with Derbyshire as he was convalescing at Parwich Hall.
He decided to train to be a nurse at the City Hospital in Derby, which is where he met Barbara, who was a fellow trainee.
They both spent their working lives as nurses – Len as a psychiatric nursing officer at Kingsway Hospital, and Barbara as a StateRegistered Nurse.
She worked mainly as a district nurse in Derby.
In the late 1960s they co-founded the highly-regarded Brookfield’s nursing home in Littleover.
They moved to Ashbourne in 1982, taking on the Bowling Green Inn with one of their daughters as a “retirement project”.
While there they built their dream home in North Avenue and, on retiring from the pub, enjoyed life to the full. Among their interests, they were involved in Ashbourne Field Club, Ashbourne Heritage Society, the Stroke Support Club, and they were regular attendees at St Oswald’s church.
Len was also a member of Ashbourne Probus Club and they also enjoyed world.
Closer to home, the couple indulged their love of walking, not only in Derbyshire but throughout the UK.
They have three children, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. travelling around the and Barbara raise a glass and enjoy a cake (above).
THIS was the moment when emergency crews arrived to tackle an overnight factory fire in Derbyshire.
A tweet from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said a number of its teams had been called to a blaze at Westthorpe Fields Road, in Killamarsh yesterday.
According to the Staveley Fire Station Facebook page, the blaze happened at a plastics factory in the north Derbyshire town at around 12.50am.
A number of crews were still at the scene yesterday morning.
Initially, six crews were called to the blaze including Staveley, Clowne, Chesterfield, Bolsover, Aston Park and South Yorkshire Fire.
The cause of the blaze is not yet known.