FAMILY and residents at a care home have celebrated the 100th birthday of long-time Fox Bros, Wellington, worker Ethel Ridgeway.

Ethel was born in Swansea as one of ten children but came to Westleigh, where her grandfather owned the Royal Oak, at the age of 16.

She later went into service at Holcombe Court, then to Fenacre Quarry with one of her sisters filling lime bags before going to Fox Bros where she worked 36 years.

Ethel was very active there, organising trips in the summer and Christmas outings, and she also ran a thrift club and a premium bond club.

She moved to Wellington in the 1970s, living first in Humphreys Road, then Bulford and finally Lodge Close before moving into the Moorhaven residential care home in Taunton 18 months ago.

Ethel, said to be the life and soul of the party, loved a game of bingo and drove until she was 87.