TWO shopkeepers from Chorleywood moved to Portugal this week to start a new life together after more than 30 years of combined service to the village.
Tony and Pauline Gilston first met in 1994 when Pauline, who was manager of the local Peace Hospice shop, asked Tony, then manager of Davisons wine merchants on the opposite side of the road, if he would donate some wine for a charity event she was organising.
A year after they first met, they were married and now Tony and Pauline have left their house on Green Street and will be settled into their new home in the Algarve in time for Easter.
"We have had such tremendous fun with people of all ages," said Tony, 55, who moved to Chorleywood from Bolton 20 years ago and who most recently worked in J May grocers.
"One of the best things about Chorleywood is that it is still a village and we have some fantastic friends here."
For full story see this week's Watford Observer.
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