A COUPLE who met as teenagers in the Swinging Sixties are today celebrating their golden wedding anniversary.

Judy and David Reynolds, of Haxby, who put their long-lasting marriage down to “love, laughter, tolerance and trust” will be toasting the occasion with a party with family and friends.

David, now 72, was born in Heworth and went to Burnholme Secondary School while Judy, 71, was originally from Bishopthorpe Road and attended Knavesmire Girl’s School.

The pair met as teenagers at the Rialto Cinema on Fishergate.

Admiring Judy from afar, David saw his chance to make conversation when a seat next to her became vacant. He immediately jumped over the row of seats separating the boys from the girls and sat down next to her. “We have been together since,” said Judy.

After five years courting, during which they saw the newly famous Beatles at the Rialto in 1963, they were married on April 3 1965 in St Clement’s Church on Scarcroft Road.

David worked as a sheet metal worker until the closure of the Eclipse Copper Company in 1980 and Judy worked in a number of jobs including modelling for Brown’s departmentsStore, as a telephonist at the York Telephone Exchange and as a nurse at York District Hospital.

Their first home on Bishopthorpe Road cost £350 at the time. David and Judy then settled in Haxby, and had two children, Lindsey and Mark. They also have three grandchildren.