A couple from Diss celebrated 40 years of wedded bliss by revisiting their wedding venue and recreating some treasured pictures.

Eastern Daily Press: A family has returned to the place where the parents got married 40 years later to recreate some of the pictures. Photo: Clare BurgessA family has returned to the place where the parents got married 40 years later to recreate some of the pictures. Photo: Clare Burgess (Image: Clare Burgess)

Paula and Brian Burgess, of Cobbold Street, were married on October 7, 1978.

They held their reception at Depperhaugh, in Hoxne, Suffolk, which was then their family home.

Daughter Clare Burgess, 30, who lives in Lowestoft, decided to take the family back to re-shoot all the photographs in the magnificent gardens where the reception had been held 40 years before. The property is now a care home.

Miss Burgess said: 'The idea of recreating the pictures came out of a conversation with my mum. It started about how we were going to celebrate our 30th and 60th birthdays, which were both in September, and moved on to what we were going to do for my parents' 40th anniversary.

'Mum had me after my grandparents sold the Depperhaugh so I never got to see it. However, she and my aunts have always talked fondly about their former home and all the dogs they had there.

'My grandparents were really caring people and proud of what they did there. My nan only died in 2015 and some of her former staff at The Depperhaugh came to her funeral.'

The former 19th century admiral's house had been the family home of her maternal grandparents, Mavis and John White who ran what was quaintly referred to in the EDP wedding report of the day as a 'country home for the retired'.

Joining Miss Burgess and her parents back at the Depperhaugh, now run now as a nursing home by Kingsley Healthcare, were her mother's sisters Sarah White, Kate White and Anne White.

Eastern Daily Press: A family has returned to the place where the parents got married 40 years later to recreate some of the pictures. Photo: Clare BurgessA family has returned to the place where the parents got married 40 years later to recreate some of the pictures. Photo: Clare Burgess (Image: Clare Burgess)

For one of the shots, Miss Burgess ushered her father, a carpenter, and mother, a treasury and payroll administrator, into exactly the same position in front of a backdrop of trees.

Miss Burgess said they had great fun on the photo shoot and it brought back lots of memories for her mother and aunts.

She said: 'The family lived in the coachhouse, next to the main building. They were excited to rediscover their old bedrooms and outside the structure of their old greenhouse.'

Eastern Daily Press: A family has returned to the place where the parents got married 40 years later to recreate some of the pictures. Photo: Clare BurgessA family has returned to the place where the parents got married 40 years later to recreate some of the pictures. Photo: Clare Burgess (Image: Clare Burgess)