Meet Britain's oldest married couple

SPRIGHTLY Phyllis Tarrant celebrated her 100th birthday yesterday as she and husband Ralph claimed the title of Britain’s oldest married couple.
Ralph clocked up his century five years ago giving the pair, who have been married for 75 years, a combined age of 205. And there’s no sign of them slowing down.
They still live in their own home, Phyllis does her own cooking and cleaning and Ralph takes charge of the shopping.
She puts their long lives and long-lasting relationship down to ‘getting on with each other, a good diet, exercise, avoiding cigarettes and a tot of whisky each night’.
Phyllis was born in Sheffield in 1908 and worked as chief typist at a local steelworks. Ralph, originally from Nottingham, moved to the city with his family when he was seven.
The couple first met when Phyllis was 14 and four years later their romance began.
The couple, who were married on July 8 1933, have two daughters Brenda, 71, and Christine, 61, as well as seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Phyllis, a talented pianist, loves opera and attends Church every Sunday where she is also an active member of the luncheon club and is a life-long Sheffield Wednesday supporter.
The pair have a growing collection of telegrams from the Queen to congratulate them on their their landmark birthdays and diamond wedding anniversary. Ralph left school aged 13 and started work as an office boy at a local engineering firm before joining an insurance company where he remained until he retired in 1968, and during the war years he served in the RAF as a corporal in 201 Coastal Command.