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Stepney celebrates the Queen's Diamond Wedding
Stepney Community Centre celebrates the Queen's Diamond Wedding
Jewish Care’s Stepney Community Centre in Beaumont Grove was transformed into an old time music hall when members, staff and volunteers held a party to celebrate the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh’s 60th wedding anniversary.
The idea came from centre member Sadie Cooper, 83 and her husband Jerry, 84, who got married in 1947 – the same year as the Queen. Mr and Mrs Cooper live in Tower Hamlets and have been coming to the centre to socialise for the past 10 years. Mrs Cooper is blind and her husband, a retired taxi-driver, is now her carer.
Sadie Cooper said: “We were both working when the Queen got married and didn’t have a television in those days, so we couldn’t join in the Royal celebrations. We had our own Diamond Wedding in August and I started thinking that we should have a special party at the centre in honour of the Queen. I suggested it to Sandra Saintus [the centre manager] and she agreed.”
Volunteer coordinators Barbara Waterman and Joyce Saffron organised the party with the help of staff and volunteers, ordering an anniversary cake, booking entertainment and a special appearance by Doreen Golding, the Pearly Queen of the Old Kent Road.
Talking of the past, Mrs Cooper added: “I used to be an embroiderer and Jerry worked as an electrician. He had just come out of the army and we didn’t have much money but we still had a white wedding at Commercial Road Synagogue and a meal in a kosher restaurant in Whitechapel. We went to Brighton for our honeymoon.”
Mr Cooper is vice president of the London Taxi Benevolent Association for War Disabled. He adds: “I was 16 when I met Sadie. We were in an air raid shelter in Philpott Street. I had been a boy scout and did first aid and she wasn’t feeling well. We are still very much in love.”
