Updated
Tuesday, 22nd December 2020, 4:28 pm
Dorothy Woodroffe moved to Scarborough from Birmingham in 1948 with her late husband William, known as Bill.
Dorothy met Bill on a “lovely summer’s evening” walking home from her Guides group when she was 14.
“I saw this lad swinging on a gate of his home, with an ice cream cornet, and I thought ‘well he looks nice, I’ll go and talk to him’,” she said.
Dorothy Woodroffe celebrating a previous Christmas.
“So I went up to the gate and started chatting, and soon after romance bloomed.”
Bill and Dorothy married in 1946 after Bill returned from the Second World War; he served in France, Germany and Belgium with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.