A true lifelong love affair! Married couple who were born as neighbours and used to share the same pram are still going strong 84 years on

Two babies calved arsenic neighbours are unneurotic arsenic a loving mates an unthinkable 84 years later.

Brian and Margaret Main are inactive side-by-side aft being calved conscionable six weeks isolated successful 1940 conscionable 2 doors distant from each other.

And the mates treasure a 'baby love' photograph of themselves arsenic adorable infants successful the aforesaid pram unneurotic going connected walks.

The brace grew up earlier moving isolated - but past fell successful love, married, raised a household and are inactive unneurotic aft being wed for much than 60 years.

Mum-of-three Margaret says: 'As children we lived 2 doorway isolated successful - I was successful fig 50 and helium lived successful 52 connected our street.

'My sister would look aft maine and a childminder looked aft Brian. They'd enactment the brace of america successful the pram unneurotic and instrumentality america retired for agelong walks.

'Sometimes they'd spell pinching apples from people's trees and enactment the apples nether maine and Brian. They were a brace of rebels.

'We played unneurotic arsenic kids - I was a existent tomboy arsenic a youngster and loved climbing trees, immoderate trees astatine all. Brian remembers that 1 time I couldn't get down and the different children had to spell and get our parents to assistance america down.'

Then, astatine the property of 11, Brian moved distant with his household and the brace mislaid touch.

Brian said: 'I moved distant with my begetter arsenic helium was a colliery manager and was often moved around. But erstwhile I was 18 I moved backmost with household inactive surviving successful Addison Street and I erstwhile I saw Margaret she was each grown up and truthful lovely.

'I asked her retired connected a day and the remainder is history. We started courting and became inseparable.

Margaret said: 'We spell to the cinema together. I loved thing with Jack Lemmon and I loved the movie 'The Odd Couple' with Walter Matthau.

'My favourite movie is South Pacific - I've astir apt seen it 50 times.

'Brian preferred cowboy films and I'd spell and spot them with him too. Neither of america were dancers but we'd emotion to spell for agelong walks together, we had fantastic times together.'

Brian said: 'I had a motorcycle but Margaret refused to get connected it truthful I bought a BMW Isetta 3 instrumentality car. You could thrust it connected a motorcycle licence. We'd spell everyplace unneurotic successful that small car.'

At the property of 21 successful March 1962 the brace got joined aft dating for 3 years. Margaret made her ain wedding formal and the bridesmaids dresses.

Brian says: 'We didn't person a batch of wealth and we had astir 30 radical and its outgo £1 a caput for the reception. I retrieve having a taxation rebate and we borrowed £40 from my auntie for our honeymoon to London.

'We booked into the Strand Hotel and we had to cheque retired aft 4 days due to the fact that it was truthful costly and we ran retired of wealth and spell home!'

Margaret studied creation and became a formal decorator for a children's artifact company, Chilton. Brian worked successful the colleries earlier becoming a postulation warden and yet retiring successful 2003.

In 1973 Brian built a four-bed detached location successful Blackwood, South Wales, for his household astatine a expansive outgo of £3,000.

'It's scary erstwhile I look astatine the houses prices now. Our location outgo maine conscionable £3,000 to physique each those years agone present it's astir apt worthy fractional a million,' said Brian.

The mates person 3 children, Debbie, 60, Hayley, 57 and Bryan, 55. They besides person 5 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren.

'All our children were calved by caesarean section,' recalled Margaret.

'I was told I had to hold astatine slightest 2 oregon 3 years betwixt each kid due to the fact that backmost past the country chopped you from your belly fastener each the mode down.. Now it's keyhole surgery.

'I was lone tiny - conscionable 5ft tall. Brian was 6ft truthful I was ever looking up astatine him.'

Brian and Margaret went connected a level for the archetypal clip successful 2010 for their archetypal vacation overseas successful Lanzarote.

'I didn't caput being connected the level but Margaret was terrified,' Brian said.

'She kept asking maine if we'd taken disconnected and we'd already been successful the aerial 15 minutes. It was a bully vacation but we similar our caravan.'

Now joined for 62 years and asked what is the cardinal to a blessed matrimony the brace says being the champion of friends and laughter.

Brian joked: 'I'm a spot of a joker and I asked her if she'd similar a 'maternity' ringing for a present. She laughed and said 'it's an eternity' ringing and she'd similar one.

'She's perfectly beauteous and I'd wed her each implicit again. She truly is my champion friend.'