50 year love affair with resort - and each other!
But the unpromising start to both their marriage and holiday thankfully failed to dent either their love for each other or for the resort.
For the couple, of Coatbridge, near Glasgow, have just celebrated both their 50th wedding anniversary - and 50 years of visiting Blackpool.
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Hide AdAnd to mark the occasion they were given a special civic reception at the town hall.
Blackpool Mayor Coun Ian Coleman said: “They have supported Blackpool by visiting every year for 50 years and it was also their 50th wedding anniversary this year.
“So it was a joy to share it with them.
“Blackpool is the best holiday resort in the country, and this family has proved it by coming here for 50 years.”
The reception was organised after Jean, 67, and 73-year-old Campbell’s granddaughter Jennifer wrote to the Mayor’s office.
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Hide AdShe said in her letter: “Since celebrating their honeymoon in Blackpool 50 years ago, having to sleep in their car overnight as the hotel was shut when they arrived, my grandparents have been visiting Blackpool every year since, never missing a year - not even when my papa had a stroke whilst driving to Blackpool a few years ago.
“Blackpool holds a very special place in their hearts and has many great memories for us all.
“Blackpool is in their blood, with my papa even being known as ‘Mr Blackpool’ in his days driving taxis here in Scotland.”
The couple have three children and six grandchildren and love to stay at The Cliffs Hotel.