A COUPLE marking their Diamond Wedding anniversary were able to toast each other through glass at a care home.

Thanks to kind staff members at Beach Court Care Home in Prestatyn, Jean Hughes, 80, was able to spend an hour with her husband Glyn, who is living with dementia.

Glyn moved into Beach Court last December.

The couple were able to enjoy each other company after staff furnished a building outside and opened it up for residents to they can see and speak to their families.

Jean visited Glyn with her daughter Linda. The couple were able to toast through glass and enjoyed a shandy and a glass of wine.

Jean said: "When you are young, you don't realise that you will reach a good age and still be together for 60 years. Time is nothing we take each day as it comes.

"Beach Court kept saying they would try and let me see Glyn and talk to him for our anniversary so two weeks before, they furnished a building outside and opened it up for residents to see and talk to their families.

Rhyl Journal:

Glyn and Jean were married on July 16 1960 at St John’s church, Salford

"It is by appointment but on our anniversary, they let me and our eldest daughter Linda stay for an hour.

"I said to Glyn we had been married for 60 years and he said 'no wonder I am grey'. We had a laugh.

"He still has a funny sense of humour when he is in good mood. He can change his mood quite quickly but it was a lovely visit, better than we thought it would be, and the carer with him was lovely.

"He went into beach court a week before Christmas. We were just getting into a routine with him [before the pandemic], taking him in his wheelchair to the Nova in Prestatyn for a coffee and a walk along the sea front. I used to go every day and have my meals with him. They said I could go anytime and they always offered me a drink and asked if I wanted to stay at lunch time.

"Glyn would always help anybody when he was younger. He always worried after me when I was his carer [Jean was Glyn's carer for five and a half years after Glyn had a stroke that affected his memory and mobility].

"He is proud off his daughters and has always supported me with my involvement in the Meliden community."

Glyn is 86. The couple, who moved to Meliden after they got married, have daughters Linda,Wendy and Denise and six grandchildren.

Jean is from Salford but came to live on Warren sand dunes with her parents and two sisters in the 50s.

She met Glyn at a dance hall in Gwespyr. Glyn came over and asked Jean to dance.

Jean added: "And that was that. We used to go every Saturday night with friends to all the village dance halls.

"We stayed going out and then got engaged. My parents then decided to go back to Salford and I went back with them . Glyn would come to visit every weekend, or I would go to Prestatyn, and we then got married at St John’s church in Pendlebury on the July 16.

“I had to have my parents permission - I was 20.

"We had Di Watkins coaches to bring all our friends from Prestatyn to the wedding. Glyn and his brother, who was best man, stayed at my mum's friends house the night before the wedding.

"The coach went to the wrong church before finally arriving at the right one. There was over a hundred guests for a sit down meal and then in the evening, a buffet and a band to dance to."

Jean was full of praise for the staff at Beach Court Care Home.

She added: "I would like to thank the management and all the staff at the care home for making it possible for me to see my husband on our special day. I was so thankful for having the opportunity as I have only been having photos sent to me by the staff and videos.

“I'm very thankful for their dedication and the care for all the residents is wonderful, especially through this epidemic to keep them all safe.”