A Corby couple celebrating their 60th year of marriage have proved that opposites attract, marking their diamond anniversary at the venue where they met and held their reception.
Jack and Margaret Kane had bumped into each other at the bar of The Raven Hotel – she was a rock and roller and he was a ballroom dancer – and in less than two years they married.
Margaret’s policeman father didn’t want her to bring a Kane onto his property – but instead of breaking apart the couple became more determined to make it work.
As different as chalk and cheese, they went on to have two children and travelled the world together.
Husband Jack, 85, is one of 17 siblings and the youngest boy of Corby’s Kane clan that included his late brother Jimmy, a much-loved Corby councillor.
Margaret, an 80-year-old former teacher, said: “I thought I was marrying Corby. I kept getting introduced – ‘this is my brother and his wife, and then this is another brother and his wife’.
“When I told my dad who was a…
