THE OLDEST COUPLE
HUSBAND AND WIFE NEARLY 103
LONDON, March 26. A fortnight to-day Mr. John Taylor, of Hillside House, Green Street Green, near Orpington, Kent, will bo 103, and his wife, Sophy Taylor, will attain tho same age in August. They are said to be the oldest married couple in tho country. Mr. Taylor enjoys his. daily glass of. beer and a smoke, while Mrs. Taylor is ablp to read and knit without glasses. Mr. Taylor is a native of London. When the Great Exhibition buildings of 1851 were being erected in Hyde Park, ho was employed as a. carpenter, and laid planks for Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort to walk on when they paid a surprise visit to tho site,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16347, 23 May 1927, Page 12
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123THE OLDEST COUPLE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16347, 23 May 1927, Page 12
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