'We feel we grew up with Canberra': celebrating 60 eventful, happy years

John and Mary Van de Graaff in their Belconnen unit on Friday. Picture by Keegan Carroll

John and Mary Van de Graaff, who celebrated their 60^th wedding anniversary this week, feel like they "grew up with Canberra".

Now living on the 16^th floor of an apartment block in the heart of Belconnen, they previously lived all over inner-north and northern Canberra, watching the excavations of both Lake Burley Griffin and then Lake Ginninderra.