RETIRED baker Gladys Whipp has celebrated her 100th birthday - and put her long life down to "hard work".
Forty members of her family travelled from across the country to a party at her home in St Hubert's Lodge, Great Harwood.
She was the fifth child in a family of eight children in Clayton-le-Moors before the First World War.
After leaving Peel Park School, Accrington, at 12 she worked as a baker and dinner lady before retiring in 1966.
Gladys, who never married, said: "I have worked hard all of my life and that is what has seen me make it to 100."
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