For this week’s Nostalgia, we will be looking back at the spring/summer of 1964, where it was wedding season.

Taking a look at our archives, many people from the town and its surrounding areas decided to tie the knot that year, and, as we head into a new year, we will be reminding ourselves of who officially became one nearly 59 years ago.

We will also look at how 1964 was the year a popular car festival was launched in Bracknell, as well as how two pilots were given a dream job during the same period.

One of the couples that became one in 1964 were Mr Richard Silvester of South Ascot and Miss Carole Nobbs of Fernbank Road, Ascot.

Another couple who tied the knot were William Ward of Ellis Road, Crowthorne and Shirley Brown of Broad Lane, Bracknell.

The two married at Shephard’s Lane Methodist Church in Bracknell back in April 1964.

Alan Morris, from Dalston, London officially married Josephine Edwards of Nightingale Crescent, Bracknell in the 1960s at the East Hampstead Parish Church.

At the same venue at around the same time, the wedding of Alexander MacSwan of Makepeice Road, Bracknell and Brenda Davis, of Dundas Close, Bracknell also took place.

The duo were wedded at the All Saints’ Church in Wokingham, with the two enjoying a trip to Paris for their honeymoon.

Away from weddings, another significant event in 1964 was that the first-ever Daffodil Run began.

Originally started in Wokingham, the Daffodil Run saw car enthusiasts in their classic motors (yep – there were ‘classic and vintage’ cars that motorists kept in the 1960s), get involved in a 70 ¼ mile trip that start at the Bracknell Sports Stadium to the Beaulieu, which is the home to the National Motor Museum.

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