Whoever said retirement age was 65 didn’t tell George Booth.

He is 98 -years-old and still works seven days a week at his Shafton scrap yard. He oversees the delivery of scrap metal such as copper, lead and aluminium.

When he is not on the job he is occupied looking after his three dogs, Alsatian Ben, Brandy the Highland terrier and Herbie.

His son Sylvester and grandson Paul look after the day- to- day running of the business but George can still calculate all the prices of metal, has a comprehensive knowledge of government regulations and, despite failing eyesight, knows where each wagon visiting the yard has come from and where it is going back to.

Despite approaching his 100th birthday, he has no intention of slowing down. He said: “I don’t have people to carry me about but I don’t go where the heavy machinery is. I used to be among it left, right and centre. “Working keeps me happy and keeps me fit. I am as fit as a fiddle apart from my eyes.

“I am not as strong on my legs as I used to be but I still get about without any help and I am hoping to do that for a long time. I love every minute of it.” He was born in Sheffield in 1907 and started working at the age of seven when the price for a ton of scrap metal was 30 shillings.

In 1957 he bought the business for #3,150 and has since spent over a quarter of a million pounds on the site.