FORMER spinner Catherine Moran has celebrated her 100th birthday.
Kitty, as she likes to be known, was joined by family and Blackburn with Darwen Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor Tony Humphrys and his wife, Jacqueline, for a birthday buffet at Higher Bank residential home, Blackburn.
She moved into Higher Bank only last year, taking care of herself at home in Oakenhurst flats until she was 99.
Relatives and friends jokingly like to put Kitty's long life down to her habit of having a drop of whisky with her tea a few times a day.
Born in Blackburn, in Havelock Street in 1902, Kitty was the youngest in a family of four.
Her mother died giving birth to her and Kitty, along with her two brothers and a sister, were brought up by their Irish father.
She attended St Anne's School until the age of 13 then joined a mill near Chorley as a spinner, a profession which she stuck to for the rest of her working life.
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