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Oldest woman celebrates birthday | Oldest woman celebrates birthday |
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The oldest living person in the UK is celebrating her 113th birthday at a nursing home in Leeds. | |
Guinness World Record holder Florence Emily Baldwin, known as Florrie, was born in the city on 31 March 1896. | Guinness World Record holder Florence Emily Baldwin, known as Florrie, was born in the city on 31 March 1896. |
Mrs Baldwin, whose husband Clifford died in 1973, once met Queen Victoria in Leeds, was 16 when the Titanic sank and 73 when man landed on the moon. | |
Mrs Baldwin's family said she was still putting up new curtains and cleaning windows at the age of 105. | |
They said she was a single-minded lady who had been fit all her life and had not even been registered with a doctor until she was 104. | |
Her only contact with the medical world had been a cataract operation when she was in her 80s. | Her only contact with the medical world had been a cataract operation when she was in her 80s. |
Charlotte Hughes was 115 years and 228 days when she died in 1993, and is still the oldest Briton ever. | |
Last Sunday, World War 1 veteran Henry Allingham became the oldest ever British man, after clocking up 112 years and 296 days. |
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