A PARTY has been held in honour of a sheltered housing scheme's oldest resident.
Vera Blenkinsop was joined by family and friends at her 100th birthday party at the Park Place Community Centre, Darlington, on Sunday.
Mrs Blenkinsop has lived in Darlington all her life. She was born in Model Place and was a pupil at St Cuthbert's School.
She worked as a domestic servant until she married Joseph Blenkinsop at St Hilda's Church on November 8, 1930, where she had been baptised.
The couple had two children, a son Ronnie, now dead, and a daughter Irene. Mrs Blenkinsop also has two grandchildren, Christine and Lucy.
Her husband died in 1985, five years after their golden wedding anniversary.
Mrs Blenkinsop lived in the same house in Hundens Lane for 60 years until she moved into sheltered housing at Park Place in 1995.
She was a long-serving member of Firthmoor Over-60s Club
Mrs Blenkinsop also enjoys a regular Guinness or tot of whisky.
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