Band of Gold

G. A. Baker, the jeweller, is our shop for rings. Possibly one of their best customers as we went in for the third time in 50 years! HAHAHAHAHAHA
As it is our 50th wedding anniversary, in May, I asked Marlane what she would like as it's our Golden Anniversary and she said a new wedding ring.
We first bought the engagement ring and wedding ring in January 1975  for our wedding in May. 
A few years ago, must have been at least 25 years, we bought a second wedding ring and now a third. Gold, being a soft metal, does wear and become thin. The second wedding ring had a pattern to it but it's disappeared, we don't really know what happened to it, so this third ring is a replacement for the missing one.
It will take about 3 weeks to be delivered to the shop.
It's a real old fashioned jewellers, as you can tell from the frontage. One of the places to visit if you are in Gloucester as the characters, above the frontage, ring those bells, I think every quarter of an hour.
As for the proposal, it was incredibly romantic.
I was 26, Marlane was 21, and I was still in the Royal Air Force. In the time frame we are talking about I already knew I was on PWR (Preliminary Warning Roster) for a posting overseas. This time it was the Maldives, RAF Gan (the most Southerly island in the most Southerly Attol, of the Maldives, see Extras, one an aerial shot of Gan island and another on my 27th birthday (November 1975. The other is me on duty in the 'Flight Watch' where we would communicate with aircraft before the Air Traffic Control Tower took over for their arrival. We often got Speedbird XX calling us up too, this was British Airways with ex-RAF pilots.
My proposal went something like this.
"Do you know if we get married before I go to Gan we'll get the Married Mans Allowance?"
She said yes :-))
And another extra of us on our wedding day, 17 May 1975 - I flew away about two weeks later.