Richard Catton
An ex-pub landlady who attributes her longevity to cod liver oil has celebrated her 104th birthday.
Alice Leaf is a former landlady of the Phoenix Pub, in George Street, York. She was born in Heworth on January 21, 1905, and lived with her family in Bromley Street, off Leeman Road.
She started work at Terry’s on her 14th birthday in 1919 and remembers her father returning from serving in the trenches during the First World War.
Mrs Leaf married her policeman husband, Stanley, in 1928 and the couple went to live in Wakefield for his work. They also lived in Whitby before returning to York.
Her son, Raymond, said: “You would not think she was her age. She is laughing and joking and when she was 100 the mayor came to visit and went to the wrong person as my mother didn’t look old enough.”
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