26/05/2026
100 never looked so good!😊🥳
Recently our Client Ann turned 100 and we popped over to celebrate and asked some all important questions about her fascinating life!
Read below...
❔So Ann, how does it feel to be 100?
💭No different but I can't believe it.
❔What's your secret to getting to 100?
💭I think it's in my genes, my I think great granny in 1700s reached 100.
❔ What do you remember from your childhood?
💭My father was a Vicar, and he had a parish in the country. We moved to Dover when I was 7. We were there when the war broke out. My father was preaching a service, and I heard on the radio that war had broken out, and I had to go out and signal to my father that war had broken out.
Then my school was evacuated to Wales, but my parents didn't want me to go that far so I went live with my Aunt in Bedford in a school she owned, and I had to clean at the weekends to earn my keep.
After 18 months I moved back to Dover, for the summer holidays, then went back to Bedford to finish my education..
However I do also remember later on, I was actually in London when peace was declared outside in Bucking Palace, where there were crowds of people, the King and Queen and Winston Churchill came out of the palace on the balcony and declared the war was over, it was a wonderful moment.
❔What career path did you take ann?
💭Well, one day I went to cinema and what we were watching was about nursing and thought to myself I could do that. I wanted to train as a children's nurse. My mother and me were interviewed for my place at Great Ormond Street. I feel very proud that I went to Great Ormond Sheet hospital. I was there until I finished my training.
Then I got a job as a nanny live-in for a while.
After, I saw Brunswick were advertising for a school nurse, I got the job. I met my husband there, Peter, he asked me if I wanted to go to Brighton, that was the start of it, we were married for 60 something years and had 3 children and 8 grandchildren.
I have had a good life.❤️
