A GLAMOROUS centenarian has died at the grand age of 105.

Sybil Brookes passed away peacefully at Lower Ridge Care Home in Belvedere Road, Burnley, last Tuesday.

David Hanns, a close family friend, said: “She had a wonderful life and was truly blessed. Reaching 105 is truly remarkable. There can’t be many people in her age bracket.

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“She hadn’t been ill before her death. She was sitting at the care home and simply closed her eyes and passed away. The doctor had even been for a routine check that morning and everything was fine.

“She was a bright, glamorous, fun person. She loved people and always had beautiful clothes and loved her bling.”

Mrs Brookes, nee Greenwood, was the wife of the late Bob, who died in 1996, and mother of the late Kenneth, who died in 2010.

She met her husband, who worked for the coal board, at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool. The couple didn’t have any children but they adopted Kenneth when he was a baby and they were devoted to him.

They had celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1995 – a year before her husband’s death.

The couple, who had lived in Manchester Road, Burnley, moved to Bournemouth after their retirement but moved back to the Brunshaw area of Burnley 20 years later to be nearer to their son.

She had a hip accident aged 95 which left her disabled and in a wheelchair. I used to take her out and we would go around jewellery shops.

Mrs Brookes had lived at Lower Ridge Care Home for the last five years of her life.

She was a former Cliviger Primary School and Burnley Wood Secondary School pupil.

Her funeral is on Wednesday with a service and cremation at Burnley Crematorium at 2.20pm.

The year of Mrs Brookes’ birth was also the year the first night air flight was taken by Englishman Claude Grahame-White during the London to Manchester Air Race.

During the same year, British miners walked out on strike for an eight-hour working day.

On May 6, 1910, George V became King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.

It was also the year that Dr Crippen was convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.

In other parts of the globe, Tel Aviv was founded and the Union of South Africa declared independence from the UK.

Alva Fisher patented the electric washing machine that year.