South Yorkshire Times, August 11th 1933

Great Houghton

Wedding: Anderson & Thompson

Crowds assembled at the Great Houghton Methodist Church on Saturday for the wedding of Miss Edna May Thompson, a popular member of the church, and youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Thompson, Little Houghton, to Mr. Stanley Anderson, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Anderson, well known florists at Snape Hill.

He is a member of the staff of the Snape Hill school and takes a keen interest in the Dearne school sports, as a member of the executive of the association. He is chairman of the Darfield Cricket Club. The Rev. S. Hankin-Hardy (Cudworth) officiated and the service was choral. Mrs. H. Taylor (Great Houghton) was the organist, and the hymns “The voice that breathed” and “0 perfect love” were sung.

The bride wore ivory crepe suede cut on Empire lines, with cowl collar; Her Brussels lace veil, scalloped and richly embroidered, as attached to a wreath of orange blossom and formed a long train. She wore the bridegroom’s gift of pearls and carried white St. Joseph’s lilies and crimson roses. The little trainbearers, Joan Sykes and Enid Thompson, wore dainty Victorian , gowns of shell pink spun silk with matching caps of ribbons and rosebuds. Each wore a pink necklet and carried Victorian posies of pink roses, gifts of the bridegroom. The bridesmaids, Misses Edna Dransfield and Iris Buckle, wore lemon floral georgette, gowns patterned in bronze, with the colour scheme enhanced by wreaths of bronze leaves in their hair, lemon shoes, and bouquets of lemon and bronze chrysanthemums. They wore necklets of crystals, the gifts of the bridegroom.

The bride’s twin brother, Mr. Archie Thompson, was best man, and Messrs. Irvine Thompson and John Sykes groomsmen. A reception was held at Beech House Farm, Little Houghton, where Mr. and Mrs. Thompson entertained a hundred guests. Among the beautiful presents was a futurist clock and book ends from the staff of the Snape Hill School. The bride’s gift to the bridegroom was gold cuff links, and the bridegroom’s to the bride, pearls.