They fell in love after meeting at a Bradford picture house as teenagers – and are still together after 70 years of marriage.

Denis and Renee Underwood, who have four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, will celebrate their platinum wedding anniversary tomorrow.

The couple, who live at Laurel Bank Nursing Home in Wilsden, started their courtship when Renee was 17 and Denis was 18 at a cinema in Darley Street, Bradford.

Yesterday, family and friends celebrated the couple’s milestone with a celebration at Cullingworth Methodist Church.

Daughter Katy Thompson, of Sutton Drive, Cullingworth, said: “I don’t know of anybody else that has managed to be together for their platinum wedding. We have had terrible trouble getting cards because no-one has them anywhere!”

Mr Underwood, now 96, and his wife, 95, married in 1940, at St Wilfrid’s Church, Lidget Green, Bradford.

They had known each other for nearly a decade but Denis had been told by his employers at Yorkshire Bank that he was not allowed to marry until he was at least 22.

Soon after the wedding, the couple faced a major setback when a German bomb fell on a furniture warehouse in Bradford – destroying most of the furniture they had bought to set up home together.

Mr Underwood joined the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry three months later and trained for 11 weeks in Glasgow before heading for Burma and then India.

Mrs Underwood stayed at her then-home in Lidget Green and gave birth to daughter Jean, now 68, with Katy, 63, and herself a grandmother, following.

Mrs Underwood said of their long marriage: “We have been very happy together.”