Terrific triplets are holding a massive party to celebrate clocking up 180 years between them.
Susan, Sandra and Billy Moore will be marking their 60th birthday on September 8.
The trio firmly believe that three is company and NOT a crowd, and are so close they have spent their entire lives happily in each other’s pockets.
Born just 15 minutes apart, they now live only seconds away from each other on the Moss Estate.
To celebrate their togetherness they are holding a big party at Macclesfield Town Football Club on Saturday –and want all their family and friends, old and new, to join them.
Sandra, of Rutland Road, said: “It’s a great milestone to reach and it will be special celebrating together. We would love to see old faces from our childhood there.”
Susan, Sandra and Billy were Cheshire’s first triplets, born at Macclesfield Hospital back in 1956, decades before IVF treatment made multiple births more commonplace.
Their mum and dad, Ivy and postman Bibby Moore, hit the national newspaper headlines when the triplets arrived unexpectedly. In fact Ivy, then 41 and already with three children, Jean, Marion and Kenny, thought she was going through the menopause.
But life was happy for the Moore family and particularly for the triplets, who looked out for each other all the way through their schooldays and adulthood.
Sandra said: “These days six children would be something unusual. But at the time it was quite a small family. Someone of the others on the estate had 13 kids.
“It must have been hard for mum and dad suddenly having the three of us, but everyone mucked in and helped. We had our fall-outs but we always stuck together.”
Although the trio are non-identical, they do sport identical scars on their chins from separate accidents and have experienced spooky connections.
Sandra said: “There’s something there between us. I remember once having this terrible pain only to find out that our Susan needed her appendix out and there was nothing wrong with me. There was also a strange time when we went to secondary school and were put in different classrooms for the first time. Susan wasn’t herself and even had doctors look at her before realising that she just missed Billy and me.”
Sandra has been married to husband Geoff Goodwin for 42 years and they have two daughters, Adele and Michelle, who also live nearby, and five grandchildren.
Adele said: “They are very popular. You can’t go anywhere with them without someone saying it’s the triplets.
“It’s really nice. We are a really close family.”
Susan Press, a carer, has two sons Martin and Brian and six grandchildren, while bachelor Billy works in waste management and lives around the corner on Cedar Grove.
