A Sidcup couple have danced their way through 70 years of married life and are set to celebrate their platinum wedding anniversary in style.

Mrs Pamela Pullen, 87 and Mr Ronald Pullen, 89, of Honeyden Road, met at Eltham dance studio during the christmas of 1944 - a year before VE day.

At the ages of 17, and 19 respectively, the couple hit it off on the dance floor and never looked back.

Mrs Pullen said: “He was a good dancer and he was tall.”

Both dancers were working during the war, Mrs Pullen as an office clerk and her husband in the Home Guard.

Mr Pullen also worked in the Light Rescue team contending with the aftermath of the air raids during the war.

The duo stayed together during this harrowing time and married in September 1945.

The dancers were evacuated to Kent at the beginning of the war but continued ballroom dancing and modern sequence dancing.

Eventually Mr Pullen trained and worked as an accountant while his wife worked for the NHS, refusing to take up dance professionally. 

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Mrs Pullen said: “Dance, on a commercial level, is too much of a cut throat business. For us, it has been the golden thread that has run through our lives, we never wanted it it to be a job.”

So what’s been the couple’s secret to a long lasting happy marriage?

“Give and take,” said Mrs Pullen.

“I think it's because she’s managed to put up with me,” joked Mr Pullen.

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Pamela and Ronald Pullen have continued the dance of love for 70 years

Their daughter Sandra Rogers, 61, from Hook Lane in Welling is throwing a party for her parents before they head out on the Thames for a dinner cruise.

Mrs Rogers said: “It’s going to be great. The only thing is we tried to get them a card but the shops stop selling them at 60 year anniversaries!”