Brenda and Robin Baynes, 77 and 76, didn't like each other when they first met as teenagers in Kirkby, but they "fell in love" and have been married for 58 years. Six decades since they first met, Robin, now 76, still feels "happiness" when he remembers standing on the deck of a boat on the Mersey, with music and dancing in the background, staring up at the stars next to Brenda in her green lamé dress.
The couple sofa-surfed with their baby for three years before getting their first bedsit, later buying a house. After working as a joiner, Robin got into property, later setting up New Start, a not-for-profit providing residential and supported accommodation for homeless people. Brenda was his "right-hand man" running the company and children's health charity Liverpool Heartbeat.
Three kids, nine grandkids and four great-grandkids later, the couple are still together. Robin, originally from Walton, told the Liverpool Echo: "She's been a very loving wife and a very loving parent, grandparent and great grandparent. She's got a lovely nature. We've never fallen out in all our 60 years. The day we got married, I vowed I would never argue."
