Years of war and living thousands of miles apart never caused a young couple to lose their love for each other.
Soon after peace returned, an American girl was leaving her home in Pasadena and travelling to marry her Simmondley fiancé.
It must have been an arduous journey for Mary Elizabeth Adams, who made a 3,000 mile train journey alone to New York before boarding the ship, the Queen Elizabeth, for Southampton.
Waiting at the quayside was Dr George Hampson from Simmondley Lane, the man she met and fell in love with when he was in the States on a travelling scholarship from Oxford University.
George was there for two years, but before returning to Glossop it became clear the couple wanted to spend their lives together.
They spoke of getting married at Holy Trinity Church, Dinting, then World War Two began, trans-Atlantic travel halted and the wedding was put on hold.
During the war, George - who had gone on to work for Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight - was engaged on work said to be connected with high explosives.
Mary stayed at home surrounded by orange groves in sunny California with her mum.
She came to Glossop with the ivory-backed prayer book her mother carried at her wedding and a necklace that belonged to her grandmother.
The marriage of the former Glossop Grammar School boy and his American sweetheart was conducted by the Rev JOM Dawson-Bowling.
It sadly seems there was no-one from Mary's family at the marriage.
Her attendants were the bridegroom's sisters, she was given away by one of her future husband's work colleagues.
The reception was at the Grand Hotel, Manchester, and the couple went on to live at Greenwood Drive, Irby on the Wirral.
That is where our story and Mary's 6,000 mile journey ends... unless you can tell us if the couple returned to Glossop and if any of their family are living locally.
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