Yorkshire's oldest resident is celebrating her 111th birthday today with a cup of tea and a slice of pork pie.
Ethel Lang, who is the fifth oldest in the UK, will mark the occasion with daughter Margaret Bates, 87, and other family and friends at a care home in Gilroyd.
She was born in 1900 in Worsbrough Dale when Queen Victoria was on the throne and the Marquis of Salisbury was Prime Minister.
She said: "When I was a little girl I played skipping, hopscotch and buttons. We used to throw them as far as they could go and you would measure it with your fingers.
"Mum wouldn’t let me use her clothes line to skip, we used an old one that was dirty."
She lived in Monk Bretton and was fond of dancing until she broke her hip when she was 98.
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