Every five years, two best friends have taken a photo booth photograph together since they were ten years old. They just finished photographing their 50th wedding anniversary.

Keith Laughton and Martin Dowle, both 60, traveled to Skegness Station and crammed into the photo booth for the tenth time to celebrate 50 years of friendship.

Keith, a retired probation officer, and his paramedic friend Martin took the first photograph in a Lincoln Woolworths.

Then, five years later, they returned to the same shop at random and decided to recreate the original.

«It’s always good,» Keith says. «The buildup to it, and then recreating our ten-year-old memories in a photo booth.»

It turned into a delightful tradition for the couple, which they have continued for the past fifty years.

«It’s strange to look back at two ten-year-olds with nice, innocent faces and then look at the others and think about everything you go through in life together,» Keith, who was born and raised in the United Kingdom, said…

«Our lives have been unremarkable; we haven’t done anything unusual or disastrous; we’ve simply kept our friendship.»

«Squeezing into tiny seats is becoming increasingly difficult, but we’ve been doing it for fifty years, so it’s all good.»

Keith went to meet Martin after his family moved to Keith’s village of Barney, Lincolnshire, when he was eight years old.

«We’ve been reminiscing and reflecting on everything that’s happened between each five-year period; it’s a little scary when you think about it, but despite everything that’s happened, we’ve always managed to take a picture every five years.»

It’s just a friendship that has stood the test of time; we don’t have to live in each other’s pockets or speak every week…

Martin now lives in London, while Keith remains in Bartney.