Watch as Telford couple arrive in Rolls-Royce style to celebrate 70 years of marriage
A Shropshire couple have celebrated their platinum wedding anniversary in style with a trip in a Rolls-Royce and a slap-up lunch.
Olympian gold medallist Darshan Singh Kullar, 87 and Nirmaljit Kaur, 88 were married in 1955 in India.
The pair, from Old Park in Telford, came to the UK in the late '60s and to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary, daughter Kay Kullar-Gallacher arranged a surprise by whisking the pair off to lunch at the Astbury Golf & Lodge Resort near Bridgnorth in a Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Mr Singh Kullar is the proud owner of an Olympic gold medal that he won while playing for India in hockey in the 1964 Olympic games.
"He was a gold medallist in the Tokyo games a few years after they were married," said Kay. "And he has always said he could not have done it without my mum's support."
She said the pair had an arranged marriage in the Punjab in 1955.
"It was an arranged marriage; when he was a boy, I was told he peered over the garden fence at my mum and told his parents that if they were to arrange a marriage between the pair, he would say yes," she said. "And they have been together ever since."
On Monday (November 24), Mr Singh Kullar, who used to work at GKN Sankeys in Telford, and Nirmaljit were treated to a meal at the golf club.
And Kay, one of the couple's four children, arranged for a Rolls-Royce Phantom to take them there and back in style.
"It was a lovely day. They were both taken back," said Kay. "I wanted to take them in style. We have done limousines for family occasions in the past and thought it was the most fitting car for this occasion."
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