LONG WAIT AT CHURCH
GROOM BUSY IN HAY FIELDS Hours after the time fixed for his wedding, 25-year-old George Spensley arrived in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, from his home five miles away. By then the wedding guests had eaten the meal provided for them, the clergyman, the Bev. F. V. Bohinson, had gone away to play in a cricket match, and 22-ycar-old Doris AVhit!akcr,- the bride-to-be, had travelled home by bus still wearing her bridal finery. After the young man had explained he had been kept haymaking on his father’s farm and could not reach the church in time, the bride, who had waited in vain for four hours on the altar steps, forgave him. He said his parents, on hearing of his proposed marriage that morning, kept him busy all day and hid the ring he had bought. The young man’s father, Mr William Spensley, of Baklersdale, declared later: “It was only from a friend that we heard of the wedding. Neither my wife nor myself had met Miss Whittaker. and we did not- want the boy to marry under those circumstances.”-
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Evening Star, Issue 22735, 24 August 1937, Page 16
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