Vincent and Alice Heslop WE recently featured a picture of Vincent and Alice Heslop looking resplendent on their wedding day in Darlington in 1925. The happy couple had found love beneath a tree near Darlington waterworks one evening in 1921 and their diaries from exactly 100 years ago are being uploaded onto the vincentandalice.co.uk website to reveal how their relationship developed and what life was like in the town in the 1920s. And it must have been very busy in the shoe departments… “I believe the smart groom is wearing a pair of spats to give the impression that his shoes are ‘co-respondent’, like the shoes worn by Brian Johnston, the cricket commentator,” said Malcolm Dunstone, in Darlington, who has been known for some sartorial moments of his own.