South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 18 April 1942

Golden Wedding.

Mr. George Chappell Sharpe and his wife Annie of 5 Hall Avenue, Jump were married at St. George’s, Jump on Eater Monday fifty years ago.

In the afternoon they boarded a waggonette and went to Houghton Old Halt the outing being arranged as a”honeymoon.” The sunshine of the morning broke into a blizzard, and on the way back the wheels had to cut through snowdrifts a foot deep. The precise date was April 18th, and the event will be celebrated with a party to-morrow.

Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe will be joined by a son and a daughter, with their partners, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The company will total about twenty. Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe are natives of Jump. Mr. Sharpe left Hoyland Board School at 14 to work in the lamp-house at Hoyland Silkstone, and when about 22 transferred to the Wombwell Main Colliery, where he remained up to the age of 61. The couple were married by the Rev. Jordan Evans, curate in charge of St. George’s, and the date is stamped on their minds by the fast that the annual “Penny-farthing” cycle race between Hoyland and Goldthorpe had taken place In the morning, the winner being Joe Horrox.

The couple lived In Church Street, Jump, for 36 years before moving up into the veterans’ bungalows six years ago. Both are members of Jump Wesleyan Reform oldest member of Jump Male Church and Mr. Sharpe is the Voice Choir. Mr. Sharpe was 72 on Wednesday. Mrs. Sharpe will attain that age next August

On being married Mrs. Sharpe left service at Lockwood Huddersfield, but introduced her sister to the post. At the age of 74 the sister, Miss Mary Ann Ward, is still occupying the same post, only she and the mistress being left in the household. She has therefore been with the family fifty years.