A beloved great grandmother is today celebrating her 100th birthday - with a pub lunch and a small sherry!
Hazel Davis, a well-known face around Fareham where she has spent most of her life, puts her long life down to 'good living'!
She will be joined by the four generations of her family and lots of friends and well-wishers during a full weekend of celebrations.
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READ MORE:Hazel, née Purver, was born on November 29, 1924 in Bath Lane, Fareham. She attended Harrison Road School and worked various jobs in the town, including ten years as manager of Tom Parker's Dairy Shop in West Street where she was charged with promoting early sales of yoghurt or scientifically soured milk as it was then known.
During World War II, she was sent off to work at 15, originally at a builders merchant on Quay Street, before managing the day-to-day running of a nearby haberdasher. She also worked at the offices of Thornycroft shipbuilders, taking the train to Woolston each day and helping with the naval war effort.
Since retiring, she's continued to play an active part in the community, volunteering her time and incredible cake-making skills! for various events for Cancer Research, and playing cards and Scrabble socially.
Most recently living on Northwood Square in Fareham, she moved a year ago to a care home in South West London to be nearer her immediate family; daughter Jan and husband Martin, grandson Christopher and wife Laura, and great grandson Albie, aged one.
Described by her grandson Chris as 'a remarkable lady', Hazel was very physically fit well into her 90s, lived independently until recently and retains a sharp mind.
There were three Prime Ministers in 1924 - Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald and then Stanley Baldwin again.
John Logie Baird, working in Hastings, sent rudimentary television pictures over a short distance, Margaret Bondfield became the first woman to be appointed a government minister and British submarine HMS L24 sank in a collision in the English Channel, with 43 deaths.
A pint of beer cost five pence in 1924 - the modern equivalent of about 73p. The average male weekly wage was about £5, roughly £103 nowadays, and a pint of milk cost three pence (44p).
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