BANNERS and balloons decorated Burnley's Dove Court nursing home as Primrose Wilson celebrated her 100th birthday.
Cakes and sherry were on offer at the celebration party for family and friends at the Shuttleworth Street home, where Miss Wilson received a telegram from the Queen and a visit from the Mayor and Mayoress Coun Eddie Fisk and Mrs Pat Chadwick. The last survivor of nine children, Miss Wilson hailed from North Berwick near Edinburgh and worked for the NAAFI in the Second World War.
She came to Burnley at the end of hostilities, working as a carer at the Moorfields section of Burnley General Hospital.
She later became warden at Burnley Council's Gorse Hill old people's home in Padiham Road, a job she kept until her retirement at the age of 70.
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