BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Bridge Street was getting a facelift in 1966
When 20-year-old Gloria Latter married at Reading Register Office in 1966, she immediately became “mother” to 10 children, six older than herself.
Her bridegroom was 53-year-old lorry driver Wilfred Wade, from Mortimer, who had six children by a previous marriage and, if that wasn’t enough, Gloria was looking after her four brothers and sisters.
The couple met three years previously, when Wilfred ran a café in the village, but had to wait until Gloria’s parents gave their consent.
For her wedding the bride wore a full-length gown of white lace and carried a bouquet of freesias and carnations, they would be living in Mr. Wade’s caravan in Burghfield, until they could get a house.