IT is 56 years ago this month since future Carry On film star Bernard Bresslaw was married to a dancer called Betty Wright.

Although only 25, the groom was already a household name thanks to a role in The Army Game, a phenomenally popular sitcom.

Unsurprisingly, the ceremony at Caxton Hall in Westminster was attended by plenty of stars, but not everybody there was a celebrity.

A few days earlier we reported that the guest list included Mr and Mrs TG Findlay of Clifton Street, Swindon.

“How did this come about?” we asked, before answering our own question.

“It all started during the last war when Bernard, then only seven, and his two brothers were evacuated to Swindon.

“To cut a long story short, Bernard has always remembered his ‘wartime mum’ so on Saturday she and her husband will be attending the wedding and reception along with 400 other people, among them film directors and television producers.”

Mrs Findlay, 57, said: “He was a lovely little boy but very shy.

“We are so thrilled and so surprised to have received the invitation. We saw Bernard at Brighton earlier on this year and he mentioned it then. Of course, we thought he was only joking.”

Mr Findlay added: “The thing we most admire about Bernard and his family is that they are so unassuming. Just ordinary people in fact.”

The star seems to have been a very good person indeed, even at 25.

In our report of the wedding, we said: “A four-year-old girl in a white frock sat among a dozen guests in a flower-decorated room and watched the wedding.

“Sitting next to the child, Jenny Fox, was her mother, Mrs Estelle Fox, of Stamford Hill, London, a fan of the comedian who wrote to him last September and asked if her daughter could be one of his bridesmaids.”

Bernard Bresslaw and his bride, who was 24 when they married, were together until the actor’s death from a heart attack in 1993 as he waited to go onstage in London. They had three sons.

The wedding venue, Caxton Hall, has another Swindon connection, having hosted Diana Dors’ marriage to Dennis Hamilton in 1951.

Some years after young Bernard Bresslaw and his brothers left Clifton Street, a little girl from America came to live in Clifton Street while her serviceman father was deployed at RAF Fairford. The family lodged with a woman called Carrie Lofton.

The little girl would go on to be known as Pam Grier, an iconic actress who has starred in an array of films including Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown.