A Penryn couple are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary this week.

Robert and Margaret Hilder, who will have been happily married for 50 years today, will mark the milestone with family members and friends at their home in Market Street.

Robert, 76, and Margaret, 71, tied the knot at Halestown, near St Ives, in 1964, one week after Margaret’s birthday.

They have lived in Penryn all their married life.

Robert was a shipwright at Falmouth Docks and Margaret once worked for Woolworths in St Ives.