Golden Memories

Where has the time gone?  50 years ago today Barbara and I were married in the cotton mill town of Ashton-u-Lyne, just outside Manchester. At that time I had been abroad once, on a school trip to Switzerland, and Barbara had never left the country, so we could not have envisaged the exciting times that were ahead of us.

Two years later we were off to Zambia and of all the thousands of photos we have taken over the years, the one below is our most iconic, taken in October 1969 as we approached the Rhodesian border en route to a new life on the Zambian Copperbelt.

In South Africa's Northern Province (now Limpopo)

Our four years in Zambia were our watershed years, where I developed my passion for the minerals industry and we discovered that not only were we man and wife, but also best friends. Of all the good things that have come out of our 50 years together, we take the most pride in the fact that where there was once two of us, there are now 10- a wonderful feisty family, who sure keep us on our toes! 

As we now go into our 51st year, we would like to thank all of you who have played important parts, no matter how small, in our continuing journey.