NOT every day does a person turn 100 years old, but on April 28 Edna Street (nee Meader) of Bradford on Avon did just that.

Dozens of friends and family joined the centurion at her celebratory party last Thursday at Abbey House, in Church Street, complete with a cake, presents and a card from the Queen to boot.

At the party Mrs Street, who has one grandchild, said: "This has been a very nice party. There are still a lot of people who would have come had they been asked but it has been a lovely celebration and I am very happy everyone came.

"It was wonderful getting a card from the Queen, it is quite an honour."

In the run up to the milestone day, her two children Ralph and Anne Street said her feelings of indifference gradually turned to genuine excitement.

"In the run up to the big day, I saw she was getting more and more excited despite saying she did not care about it much and it was not an achievement. She was definitely looking forward to it,” said her son Ralph..

Mrs Street was born in the midst of the First World War in Portsmouth, in 1916 to parents Eliza Florence Dart and Edgar Stuart Meader.

After leaving school she started work as an apprentice dress maker before moving to Sheffield in a hospital at the eve of the Second World War.

That very year she married Sidney Ralph Street in the steel city and the couple settled down in a farm in Uppermill, Oldham.

Mrs Street, who had two siblings in Olive and Mable, and her husband had two children: Anne in 1940 and Ralph in 1942.

The year before, her husband was seconded to fight in the Indian army where he then stayed until 1946 whilst she remained as a full-time housewife.

Jobs were hard to come by in the big upheaval of post war Britain but eventually they moved to Bradford on Avon, by Abbey House, in 1948 and he began working in revenue tax in Trowbridge.

Mrs Street, who won a Golden Gudgeon in 1997 for her services top the community, spent much of her time looking after various relatives who would come to stay.

“She is a very caring person, very determined, forceful and modest – she gets on with the job with little fuss. Even to this day she is looking after others,” said her son Ralph.

In her 70’s and 80’s, Mrs Street travelled extensively, including America, with one particular highlight being a hot air balloon ride over the Grand Canyon and journeying to China respectively.

Since her husband died in the early 1990's, she has continued to care for others despite her own declining health.

Mr Street added: “I have always admired how much will power she has. She still keeps on going at 100 which is remarkable, she is a remarkable woman.

“We are going up to Saddleworth in May which is a favourite spot of hers, that should be good.”