A COWDENBEATH couple brought together by the Co-op have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.

Catherine (79) and Alexander Logan (85) of Hillview, Cowdenbeath, marked 60 years since they married on October 3, 1964.

Both were born and brought up in Lochgelly, with Alex living on Auchterderran Road and Cathie on South Street.

After leaving school, she worked at the Graftons store in Dunfermline.

Aged 17 she moved to the Co-op drapery in Lochgelly and it was there that she met Alex, who was the manager at the Co-op gents outfitters next door.

The couple then had their first date Dunfermline’s Regal Cinema and went on to marry in Lochgelly’s Churchmount Church.

They started their married life in Co-op housing above the drapery in Lochore, before moving to Crosshill, and then Cowdenbeath, where they have lived for 40 years.

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They went on to have three children, Barry, Brian and Dawn.

Cathie worked part-time as a shop assistant in the butchers in Ballingry, she was also an usherette at the Orient Express Cinema in Dunfermline and a shop assistant at the chemists in Lochgelly. 

After managing the gents outfitters in Lochgelly and Auchterderran, Alex was employed in a variety of jobs at Elliots in Dalgety Bay (circuits/semi-conductors), Todd and Duncan's Wool Mill in Kinross, Rosyth Dockyard where he fuelled the boats and latterly at the Forth Ports Authority on the security gate until his retirement.

To mark the special occasion, Councillor Darren Watt presented flowers on behalf of Fife Council, and Jim Kinloch, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Fife, visited the couple.