Hilda May Harrison (née Bonas), now a resident at Esk Hall Care Home in Sleights, was born at Plum Tree Farm in the village in 1905.

The same year saw a new town formed in the American state of Nevada, called Las Vegas, Russian sailors aboard the battleship Potemkin mutinied in protest at being fed rotten meat and Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity to wide acclaim.

Hilda attended Glaisdale School before moving into domestic service and caring for elderly family members.

She married John Harrison of High House Farm, Borrowby, at Ugthorpe Parish Church on 8 October 1931 and farmed at Borrowby until moving to East Well Cottage, Egton in 1936.

John died in 1978 and three years later, Hilda moved to Ingham Close in Sleights and became a resident at Esk Hall in 1998. Hilda and John did not have a family.

Long life runs in Hilda’s family as her sister Maggie lived until the ripe old age of 102.

She was joined by nieces and nephews for a celebration at Esk Hall on Monday with cake and sherry.