SIXTY-two years ago a man offered a girl a ride on his motorbike.

Two years later they married and today Bunty and Norman Green celebrate their diamond wedding.

The couple will hold a party next week at the Duke of Monmouth pub in Oxford with their three children, six grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Mrs Green, 78, and Mr Green, 84, met at the Morris Motor’s dance club in 1948.

Mrs Green said: “He was having a drink and I was dancing. He offered me a ride on his motorbike, and I accepted. After a couple of months we clicked and it has been love ever since.”

The couple were avid bikers during their early marriage, owning an AJS, Matchless and a Panther, which had a sidecar used by their children and their dog.

They married at St James’s Church, Cowley, but, because of clothes rationing, were not able to afford a white wedding.

Mrs Green said: “The wedding was very quiet, we just had family and one or two friends, but it was lovely.”

In 1957, after Mr Green had saved up from his job as a tool maker at Pressed Steel, the couple bought a house in Bleache Place, Cowley, where they have lived ever since.

Mrs Green said: “We have had our ups and downs, naturally, but it’s been lovely.”

Jokingly, she added: “But if Norman ever misbehaves himself I shove him down to the shed. I lock him in for a fortnight and let him out when I feel like it.

“That’s how we keep going!”