Wheely Happy 100th!

What a way to mark Grandma’s century By Helen Chitty, 49, from Croydon

 

- Emmie Harrison/Hattie Bishop

I did it… my way!’ my grandma Nancy sang.

She knew the words to every Frank Sinatra song. Coming up to 100, the golden oldie hardly sat still. She never missed a chance to sing or dance, and never said no to a Guinness!

Grandma was born in 1917, towards the end of World War I.

The last surviving child of nine, she’d grown up in poverty on The Wirral, Liverpool.

She lived through the Second World War, too, and worked on the railways. There, she met my grandad Bob Watson, and moved to London in 1947.

Sadly, Grandad died aged just 62, when I was 14 years old.

Since then, Grandma’s lived with my mum – her daughter – Joan, 74, and my dad Alan, 76, who look after her.

Although she’s had a hard life, Grandma has never stopped smiling.