A RETIRED businesswoman who originates from Crook has celebrated her 100th birthday with her family in south Yorkshire.

Sarah Ann Amos, whose maiden name was Brassell, still has her Durham accent after many years away from the area.

Her parents were Belgian and she was brought up on a farm and loved animals and birds.

After school she served a five-year-apprentice as a tailoress.

Mrs Amos settled in Carcroft, near Doncaster, with her miner husband Edward, and was living in Edlington when he died in 1966.

They had four children, Aubrey, now 78 and living in Vancouver, Canada, Dennis, 75, Valerie, 66 and Noelene, 72.

For 20 years, Mrs Amos earned her living running weekly market stalls in Doncaster, Rossington, Retford and Rotherham. She later ran a haberdashery and wool shop in Warmsworth.

Her three youngest children and many of her nine grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren visited her on her birthday, which was marked with a disco and party in the care home where she has lived for the past three years.