The wedding photographer forgot to put film in his camera - and the guests spent the ceremony listening to the horseracing on a radio smuggled into the church.

But 60 years on the Sheffield couple are still as much in love as they were when they tied the knot back in 1948.

And on Thursday they celebrate their landmark anniversary with a visit from the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Coun Jane Bird.

Martha, now 78, and Edward, 83, were just 17 and 22 when they started courting after meeting at work - Edward was a steelworker at Arthur Lees of Sheffield and Martha worked in the canteen.

A year after their first date to the cinema - when it was raining so badly Martha turned up in her wellies - they said 'I do' at St Patrick's Catholic Church on Barnsley Road.

Edward said: "When we got married we didn't have a lot of money so Martha's brother said he had a camera and would do all the photographs.

"But he forgot to bring the film with him - so we haven't got a single wedding photo."

Martha added: "It was St Leger Day when we got married so someone had a wireless playing the horse racing in the background at the church!"

The shaky start didn't matter.

Martha and Edward, who live on Holgate Road in Parson Cross, went on to have seven children, 14 grandchildren and two great grandchildren aged two and three.

Youngest daughter Lisa Travis, 42, said her parents are still "very much in love" and enjoy doing everything together.

"My mother was remembering when she and my dad were courting and how one night, saying goodbye at her garden gate, they saw a shooting star.

"She wished at the time that they could get married - and soon after they did."

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