Couple from Codsall Retire Together After Combined 87 Years

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00:00Narendra here and I'm Gayle here. Well I was, I turned 65 December the 10th and I just looked

00:06at life thinking yeah it's time to retire. I've done 48 years on Compass Mentors, I've got my health.

00:14He thinks. I think yeah, so the things we want to do I think now is the time to do them. I started

00:21as a garage youth in 1976, qualified as a mechanic and then continued to be a mechanic till I retired.

00:30And I started temporary for a month in September 1985, carried on working temporary for a year

00:38then they took me on permanently but that was as a data collector. I then moved on to the plant

00:44department which was based at Tyburn Road in Birmingham. Then I came to Park Lane when it

00:49reopened in 1990, was it? 1993 I think. As a traffic clerk I've passed my PCV, bus driving test

01:00in September 90, what did I say I passed it? 96. 96 yeah and I became a driver in 97 and that's what

01:11I've done ever since. Mainly on the, I've done most routes but in the last sort of 15 issues

01:16I've been on the Dudley 558, now the number one so that's where most people would recognise me from.

01:24She worked in the office giving me jobs, jobs on the road. Got to boss him about then as well.

01:30Oh brilliant. And what are your plans from here on out? Lots of holidays, I want to do some cruises,

01:38yeah we want to do Alaska, we've got family in Canada so we can tie it all in together

01:44and just do lots of things together. Yeah the kids are all grown up so.

01:52It's just like you say it's time to do, I know I'm lucky to be able to retire at my age

01:58and yeah it'd just be nice to do a bit travelling before we get too old and we don't want to and

02:04to pipe and slip us there. Yeah well we can do things yeah we want to do them.