South Yorkshire Times, May 23rd, 1970
In Real Style
A carriage and pair will whisk Wath bride Linda Ward from home to church on her big day in July…a wedding gift from her proud parents, who will be celebrating their own 29th anniversary the same day. Their daughter’s love of horses triggered Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ward’s quest for a very special form of wedding day transport.
Used in Film
And the search ended on Sunday when the Wards, of 58, Wath Wood Road, Wath, spotted just the thing – a carriage currently being used by glamorous Susannah York in the filming of “Jane Eyre”.
Linda, 24-years-old former member of Wentworth Pony Cub, teaching P.E. and English at Barnsley High School for Girls, is to marry Mr. Paul Bond (25) of Doncaster, a Cambridge graduate teaching English and Drama at Don Valley High School.
After their wedding on Tuesday, July 28th, at Wath Parish Church, the couple will live at High Street, Wath.
Mr. Jack Ward, 54-years-old local businessman and fruiterer, said “My daughter is a keen horsewoman, so we thought it would make her particularly happy to have horse drawn transport for her wedding day.”
Liveried Coachmen
If Linda approves, the carriage will arrive in Wath by pantechnicon. With the horses hitched, and two coachmen in livery to complete the picture, all will be ready for Linda and her ‘groom. “It should look most attractive” declared Mr. Ward, a governor of Dearnside Secondary School and Dearne Valley Conservative constituency treasurer.
He and his wife, Mrs. Phyllis Ward, were married at Rawmarsh Parish Church in 1941. They have a son, Colin (28), a former student at Wath Park Road and of Doncaster School of Art, who recently secured a public relations post in Helston, Cornwall.