Manchester woman celebrates landmark birthday turning 100

A Manchester born woman recalls the stories of living through the war and regular bomb threats as she celebrates her 100th birthday.

Great-grandmother Dorothy Roberts (known as Daw), will be turning 100 on Tuesday (July 9) and is preparing to celebrate her birthday with four generations of her family, as well as the residents of McCarthy Stone retirement home – Speakman Court in Altrincham.

Daw will be continuing the celebrations alongside her two children, Sandra and Steven, as well as going out on the Saturday with her five grandchildren to the Drum and Monkey, in Alderley Edge.

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Dorothy spoke about her excitement of receiving her telegram from the King. “I'm excited to receive one cause absolutely. It's quite amazing to get something from the King," she said.

“I have been here over ten years and nobody knew my age, because I am young, and as old as I feel.”

Despite turning 100 years old, she said she has kept busy, emphasising that she doesn’t ‘feel any different’ and continues to maintain an active lifestyle.

Now a great-grandmother, she claimed that it was her grandchildren that kept her young. " I used to take them swimming. I used to take them tap dancing. I used to do tap dancing with them.

"I used to do a lot and I started doing a lot of badminton which I've never done before, not when I was young anyway."

It's the busy lifestyle that seemed to have kept Dorothy so young, playing badminton and bowls into her nineties. But she continues to keep herself occupied with cooking all her meals from scratch, adding: “I do all my own cooking, I buy everything raw and cook it all. I don't buy any ready-made foods, probably that’s