Birthday: Millicent Stringer celebrates 100th birthday

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Millicent Stringer celebrating her 100th birthday with her son, Trevor

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Friends and family from across the country travelled to Middleton today (Sunday 13 June 2010) to celebrate a very special birthday of somebody close to their hearts.

Millicent Stringer, from Walker Street, Middleton, will reach the land mark birthday of 100-years-old tomorrow and to mark the occasion her family held a party at Long Street Methodist Church.

Millicent has two sons, eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren and has lived in Middleton all of her life.

Millicent was born in Blackley where her parents had a shop on Crab Lane, before the Second World War she moved close to Heaton Park and married her husband Bill in 1937, who sadly passed away in 1988.

The couple had their first son in 1939; he now lives in Scotland and their second son, Trevor, in 1946.

All her working life Millicent worked in the cotton industry, she worked at Frank Young’s in Blackley and later became a weaver for CPA in Rhodes where she worked until she retired.

Millicent’s youngest son Trevor organised today’s party, he said: “She is just fantastic. If anything she is too nice for her own good.”

Since moving to Walker Street in 1946, Millicent hasn’t left, aside from being in a wheelchair she is completely self-sufficient, she just has a cleaner and help from her son Trevor when necessary.

The Mayor of Rochdale, Councillor Zulfiqar Ali visited Millicent for her birthday celebrations and presented her with a birthday card.

When asked if she felt 100, Millicent said: “I don’t feel any different. I still feel 21. I have seen so much in 100 years but I have always tried to do the right thing and tried to help people.”

Trevor said there are many funny stories that remind him off his mum, but the one that really springs to mind was when she wanted to visited her eldest son in Scotland.

Millicent had never had a passport, so at 95-years-old she got one and went on her travels, however, when she got to the airport she had forgotten the passport.

Fortunately she was allowed to travel to Scotland but was told she couldn’t come back without a passport. Trevor said: “Of course I put it in the post so she could come home. It was very funny.”