FIREWORKS marked the 100th birthday of one of Malvern's most senior residents last Sunday (July 14).

Three generations of Pat Green's family came to wish her happy birthday and celebrate the event, which saw her receive congratulatory telegrams from the Queen and the House of Commons.

"I have two daughters, four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren and they all came," she said. "My great-grandson wanted to give me 100 bumps!"

Mrs Hall moved to Malvern in 1934 with her husband, Marcus, an RAF officer who led the opening parade when the Cenotaph war memorial was unveiled in London in 1920.

She became head of the Malvern branch of the Experiment in International Living, a non-profit organisation formed to promote intercultural learning through exchange programmes.

This led to her forming many friendships and travelling extensively around the world, including a trip round the White House during President Nixon's term of office.

Mrs Hall is currently looking for a publisher for her memoirs, Memory Lane, which chart her life from her earliest memory, that of watching soldiers returning from the Boer War troop past her parents' house in Herefordshire at the age of four.

Betty Box, deputy manager of Gold Hill Rest Home, where Mrs Green now lives, said she was "a real treat" to look after and described her as "very popular".