How we met: ‘My dad was a docker and her parents were very middle class. People gave us three weeks’

Alan and Janet, 65, met at sixth form in 1974. They live in Colchester with their two dogs

‘It never occurred to me that she would like me’ … Alan and Janets a teenager, Alan was the first to admit he didn’t know anything about girls. But after many years at a same-sex school in Chingford, in 1974 he went to sixth form, where they had mixed classes. When he arrived at his history class, the teacher sat him next to twin girls. “One of them was Janet,” he says. “She turned around and gave me a great big smile and I was smitten straight away.

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