By Julie Power

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When they moved to Australia from the UK, they celebrated by bringing their nine-year-old daughter to the amusement park. Today, their 27-year-old granddaughter, Lyndsey Green, manages its 600 staff, and their grandson and his wife are involved with the site’s live entertainment.

“Did you woo Bett up in the air? ” the Herald asked Calford as he smiled through the winds that were giving the stilt walkers on the ground below a touch of the wobbles.

“Oh, she doesn’t like things like that,” said the former RAF member, an experienced parachutist who is unfazed by heights.

The ferris wheel was always a popular place to pop the question, said former Herald reporter Helen Pitt, who has been writing a book about the park. “Often people would slip the attendant some money to stop their gondola at the top, so that a potential groom could ask his bride-to-be to marry him from one of the best views in Sydney.”