The two Teries, pictured, are set to raise a glass to 60 years of marriage and a happy life together that began back in 1941 at a factory cricket match in Wilton Lodge Park, and would see them living in Belfast and the Isle of Man, before retiring back to their home town.



Maimie had just returned to Hawick during the war after moving to Bournemouth with her family in 1937 when she met Bill at the cricket match. At that time Maimie worked with Marquises and Bill worked at Wilson and Glennie's tweed mill. And after arranging to meet up later that night at a dance in St Margaret's Hall, seven years later on July 20, 1948, they were married in the Congregational Church by Rev George Hewitt. They honeymooned in Bournemouth.

The couple later left Hawick and spent 30 years living in Belfast, and a further 10 years on the Isle of Man, before returning to live in Hawick when Bill retired.

They have one son Alan who lives in Toronto with wife Cherry and three children Scott, Suzannah and Matt.

Maimie and Bill will be surrounded by family to mark the occasion at the Mayfield Bar and Restaurant tomorrow, and on Sunday at the Elm Guest House where they will be joined by friends and special guests best man Jim Hill and bridesmaid Sheila Dunlop.