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Last week’s photograph of work taking place on the B.R. sports field caused quite a bit of interest. Jean Corden (nee Robertson), now in Byers Green, got in touch and told us that indeed it was her future husband Louis Gooch sitting on the digger.

It was the summer of 1953 and Lou, who originally hailed from Norwich, was staying in digs in Short Street whilst working the twelve hour shifts.

This is how Jean and he first met and they continued to correspond after the job had finished and Lou had returned to Ashby de la Zouche in Leicestershire.

Love blossomed and the pair married in 1956 and had two children, a son who lives in Bishop Auckland and a daughter who lives in Knaresborough.

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